Open AccessLa composición de los poemas hesiódicos
Author(s) -
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.2001.v69.i2.126
Subject(s) - art , philosophy , humanities , literature
Hesiod organised his poems, specially Theogony and Works and Days, on the basis of preexistent genres: lyrics, cosmogonies and theogonies, genealogies, “instructions” and calendaries. His originality was to create extensive poems introduced by proemia and consisting in a series of blocks. These blocks present a ternary structure (a - b - c) and are interconnected by associations. There are also excursus and additions