THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'S THEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OF KLEOS. (6th May 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'S THEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OF KLEOS. (6th May 2016)
- Main Title:
- THE DISEASE OF MORTALITY IN HESIOD'S THEOGONY: PROMETHEUS, HERAKLES, AND THE INVENTION OF KLEOS
- Authors:
- Mueller, Melissa
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Hesiod's Theogony is not overtly concerned with the world of mortals. The place of humans in the Theogony nevertheless holds a certain fascination, perhaps more for what is not revealed—our origins, for example—than for what is. Focusing on a relatively neglected passage of the poem ( Theogony 521-32), I want to trace here the way Hesiod lays out the cosmic coordinates of kleos ('fame' or 'glory') with a view to better situating the condition of mortality within the poem as a whole. Kleos, as we will see, is part of the fallout for humans of the battle of wits between Zeus and Prometheus: it is the compensation for their new, temporally inflected existence.
- Is Part Of:
- Ramus. Volume 45:Number 1(2016)
- Journal:
- Ramus
- Issue:
- Volume 45:Number 1(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 45, Issue 1 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0045-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 1
- Page End:
- 17
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05-06
- Subjects:
- Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
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http://search.informit.com.au/browseJournalTitle;res=APAFT;issn=0048-671X ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/rmu.2016.1 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0048-671X
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