Listening to the Spider: reading Hesiod’s Works and Days

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     This bibliography only lists works of relatively broad interest for the commentary; for other      works, complete bibliographic information is given in the places in the notes where they are cited.  {Note added 1/23/08: As explained in the Preface to this commentary, the commentary itself was composed in 2003.  Consequently this bibliography reflects scholarship up to that time.  Scholars can find more recent references in my journal articles about the poem from 2004, 2005, and 2005/06, listed in this site’s Hesiod writings page.  Especially, I maintain an up to date bibliography on the “Pandora’s Box” story on this site here.  An up to date select bibliography that is more or less accessible to the general reader will be found at the end of the “Hesiod” main page, here.} Ancient authors are cited in the text and notes according to critical editions listed in the Introduction of LSJ. For modern works published in journals, the following abbreviations are used: AC: l’Antiquité Classique; AION: Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli (sez. filol.-lett.); AJP: American Journal of Philology; BICS: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (Univ. of London); BMCR: Bryn Mawr Classical Review; CA: Classical Antiquity; CJ: Classical Journal; CM: Classica et Mediaevalia; CML: Classical and Modern Literature; CP: Classical Philology; CQ: Classical Quarterly; CR: Classical Review; CW: Classical World; DHA: Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne; GRBS: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; HSCP: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; JHI: Journal of the History of Ideas; JHS: Journal of Hellenic Studies; MH: Museum Helveticum; OA; Opuscula Atheniensia; QUCC; Quaderni Urbanati di Cultura Classica; RE: Realencylopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft; REG: Revue des Études Grecques; RP: Revue de Philologie; SC: Syllecta Classica; SIFC; Studie Italiani di Filologia Classica; SO: Symbolae Osloenses; TAPA: Transactions of the American Philological Association; YCS: Yale Classical Studies.

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