Poetry Fragments: Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife in Bloomington, MN

Next to the
Theogony
and the
Works and Days
stands an entire corpus of fragmentary works attributed to the Boeotian poet Hesiod that has during the last thirty years attracted growing scholarly interest. Whereas other studies have concentrated either on the interpretation of the best preserved work of this corpus, the
Catalogue of Women
, or have offered detailed commentaries, this volume aims at bringing together studies focusing on generic and contextual factors pertaining to the various works of the Hesiodic corpus, the
included, and the corpus' afterlife in Rome and Byzantium.