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5 The Prehistory and Analogues of Hesiod’s Poetry
Get accessJoshua T. Katz is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, professor of classics, and a member (and former director) of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University, where he has been teaching since 1998. Widely published in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient world, from India to Ireland, he has recently written on such subjects as wordplay in Vergil, the morphology of the Greek pluperfect, and Old Norse pederasty. He has a long-standing fascination with archaic Greek poetry, and the chapter in the present volume is part of a series of studies aimed at showing how much there is to learn about Homer and Hesiod from examining them from an Indo-European perspective.
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Published:08 August 2018
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Abstract
Hesiod’s indebtedness to Near Eastern material is more frequently discussed than the Indo-European background of his poetry. This chapter argues for a holistic understanding of how Indo-European prehistory and Near Eastern analogues contribute together to the formation of Hesiodic language and thought. Concentrating on Theogony 35, ἀλλὰ τίη μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην;, “But what are these things about a tree or a rock to me?,” I demonstrate that this enigmatic question encapsulates Hesiod’s role as mouthpiece at the head of the simultaneously Indo-European- and Near Eastern-based tradition of Greek poetry. By means of artful phonology here and throughout the proem, Hesiod highlights, in ways not previously noticed, the quite different sounds of the melodious Muses and their loud-thundering father, Zeus, who, like the Near Eastern storm god, has a robust association with prophetic oaks and stones.
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