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     Note:  In the following list of my conventionally published Hesiod writings, given in reverse chronological order, a link is supplied where an item appears in an internet document service (granted that the link will only yield an error message if your institution does not subscribe to that particular resource, including the periodical in question).

 

 

*Book Review of J. S. Clay’s Hesiod’s Cosmos (Cambridge, 2003), Ordia Prima, 6 (2007), 222-25 (which can be read here).


*Response to Book Review, “Beall on Mariaud on Carol Thomas, Finding People in Early Greece.  Response to 2006.07.63,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.09.13.


*Book Review of I. Musäus, Der Pandoramythos bei Hesiod und seine Rezeption bis Erasmus von Rotterdam (Göttingen 2004), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.16.

 

*“Hesiod’s Treatise on Justice: Works and Days: vv. 109-380,” Classical Journal 101 (2005/06), 161-82 (read summary).

 

*“An Artistic and Optimistic Passage in Hesiod: Works and Days 564-614.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 135 (2005), 231-47 (if your institution subscribes to ProQuest, read this article there; or if you can access Project MUSE, read it there).  The article argues the point of its title for the section of the poem nominally treating spring and summer tasks, as opposed to a reading that Hesiod advises a life based on drudgery.

 

*“Overtures of the peasant’s poets, and later arias: voiced creatures in Hesiod and others,” Classical and Modern Literature 24 (2004), 95-120 (if your institution subscribes to the Wilson Humanities database, read it there) (read summary).

 

*“Theism and Mysticism in Hesiod’s Works and Days,” History of Religions 43 (2004), 177-93 (again, if you can access ProQuest, read it there) (read summary).

 

*“The Plow that Broke the Plain Epic Tradition: Hesiod, Works and Days, vv. 414-503,” Classical Antiquity 23 (2004), 1-32 (once more, if you can access ProQuest, read it there).  This article argues that the section of the poem nominally devoted to plowing is an allegory of a protagonist pursuing organized productive activity, which is implicitly compared with the random, destructive life of the epic hero.

 

*“Notes on Hesiod’s Works and Days, 383-828,” American Journal of Philology 122 (2001), 155-71; erratum: 123 (2002), 312 (if your institution subscribes to JSTOR, read it there).  This paper, only accessible to those who read Greek, takes positions on 17 issues in construing the text within the “works and days” portion of the poem.

 

*“Hesiod’s Prometheus and Development in Myth,” Journal of the History of Ideas 52 (1991), 355-71 (again, if you can access JSTOR, read it there) (read summary).

 

*“The Contents of Hesiod’s Pandora Jar: Erga 94-98,” Hermes 117 (1989), 227-30.  This paper constitutes one example of a dissident tradition among scholars whereby the ancients did not think Pandora released evils from the “box,” but rather good things that thereby became unavailable to humans.

 

*“The Role of EPÃA 42-46,” Classica et Mediaevalia 36 (1985), 7-19.   This paper offers a reading of a particularly puzzling segment of Works and Days.