Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy

Leopoldo Iribarren, Ph.D (2009), EHESS, is Associate Professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He has published monographs, translations and articles on early Greek thought and modern philosophy. His most recent book is Fabriquer le monde: technique et cosmogonie dans la poésie grecque archaïque (Classiques Garnier, 2018). Hugo Koning, Ph.D. (2010), Leiden University, is a teacher of Greek at Leiden University. He publishes on Hesiod, reception studies and mythology. He is the author of Hesiod: The Other Poet. Ancient Reception of a Cultural Icon (Brill, 2010). Contributors are: Ilaria Andolfi, Xavier Gheerbrant, Richard Hunter, Pierre Judet de La Combe, André Laks, Tom Mackenzie, Kathryn Morgan , Glenn W. Most, Valeria Piano, Marco Antonio Santamaría, Sandra Šćepanović, Stephen Scully, Jenny Strauss Clay, Shaul Tor, Athanassios Vergados.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Leopoldo Iribarren and Hugo Koning



Part 1 Reflections on Hesiod’s Poetry and the Beginnings of Philosophy



1 On Naming the Origins: Hesiod vs. the Ionians



2 Aristotelian Perspectives on Hesiod: A Programmatic Sketch

 André Laks



3 Hesiod and the Presocratics: A Hellenistic Perspective?

 Richard Hunter



Part 2 Comparisons of Form and Genre



4 Hesiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative

 Tom Mackenzie



5 The World of the Catalogue

 Glenn W. Most



6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics

 Ilaria Andolfi



Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews



7 Thinking about Time and Eternity—From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle

 Sandra Šćepanović



8 δίκη in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus

 Stephen Scully



9 Xenophanes’ Rejection of Theogony

 Shaul Tor



10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles

 Jenny Strauss Clay



Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity



11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint

 Kathryn Morgan



12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE

 Athanassios Vergados



13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles

 Xavier Gheerbrant



14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod’s Theogony 783–806 and Empedocles’ Fragment DK B115

 Marco Antonio Santamaría



15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato

 Valeria Piano



General Index

Index Locorum