Brill's Companion to Hesiod

Scholars of the poetry of Hesiod will appreciate this companion book to his writing, which covers the state of research today as well as reviewing ancient reception of Hesiod. Montanari (ancient Greek literature, University of Genoa) along with Rengakos and Tsgalis, both in Greek literature at the Aristotle University of Thessalonki, have endeavored to present the range of views on Hesiod and the various ways of approaching his work. Some of the contributors look at the content of the work in terms of subject and style while others place him in the narrative traditions of his time. They also address the number of pseudo-Hesiodic works and the way in which the author became the subject of legends. A comprehensive, multi-lingual bibliography is provided for those who wish to research further. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Franco Montanari is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Genoa (Italy), a member of international research centers and associations, Director of the “Centro Italiano dell'Annee Philologique” and of the "Aristarchus" project on line. He published the new Ancient Greek-Italian Dictionary and several scientific works on ancient scholarship and grammar, archaic Greek epic and other Greek poets of classical and hellenistic periods.Antonios Rengakos is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Greek Historiography, Hellenistic Literature. He is the author of Der Homertext und die hellenistischen Dichter (1993) and Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklarung (1994), and has co-edited (with A. Tsakmakis) Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) (with Th. Papanghelis) and Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (2nd ed. 2008).Christos Tsagalis is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published on Homer, Hesiod, Greek Historiography, and Epigram. He is the author of Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer's Iliad (2004), The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008), and Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008).Contributors include: Albio Cesare Cassio, Jenny Strauss Clay, Ettore Cingano, Richard Hunter, Franco Montanari, Greg Nagy, Pietro Pucci, Antonios Rengakos, Gianpiero Rosati, Ian Charles Rutherford, Evina Sistakou, Christos Tsagalis.