This book analyzes important ancient responses to Hesiod's five-part narrative of human history as keys to their broader revisions of 'Hesiod'.
Helen Van Noorden is Wrigley Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge.
1. Approaching Hesiod; 2. Embedding the races in Hesiod; 3. 'Hesiod's races and your own': Plato's 'Hesiodic' projects; 4. 'They called her Justice...': reading Hesiod in Aratus' Phaenomena; 5. Hesiod ad mea tempora in Ovid's Metamorphoses; 6. Saeculo premimur graui: re-performing 'Hesiod' in Rome; Conclusion: playing Hesiod.