{"product_id":"hesiod-and-aeschylus-paperback","title":"Hesiod and Aeschylus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFriedrich Solmsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eG. M. Kirkwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice. In this new order, however, the good aspects of the past would be preserved, giving an inner continuity and strength to the changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolmsen traces the influence of Hesiod's ideas on other Athenian poets, Aeschylus in particular. From personal political experience Aeschylus could give a deeper meaning to Hesiod's dream of an organic historical evolution and of a synthesis of old and new powers. For Aeschylus, justice became the crucial problem of the political community as well as of the divine order. Through close readings of Hesiod's \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e and of Aeschylus' \u003ci\u003ePrometheia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEumenides\u003c\/i\u003e, Solmsen reinterprets the political ideas of the Greek city state and the relation between divine and human justice as seen by early Greek poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1949, this book has long been recognized as the standard work on Hesiod's influence. For the 1995 paperback edition, G. M. Kirkwood has written a new foreword that addresses the book's reception and discusses more recent scholarship on the works Solmsen examines, including the disputed authorship of \u003ci\u003ePrometheia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Solmsen (1904-1989) was Chair of the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Moses Slaughter Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include \u003ci\u003ePlato's Theology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHesiod and Aeschylus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAristotle's System of the Physical World: A Comparison with His Predecessors\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Cornell in the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52503203152179,"sku":"9780801482748","price":93.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/c1QzekRWKzFweTdITEZzOUQ1RWppQT09.webp?v=1760165821","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/hesiod-and-aeschylus-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}