Hesiod's Works and Days

Greek poet Hesiod''s canonical archaic text, the Works and Days, was performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied. In this volume, Lilah Grace Canevaro situates the poem within these two modes of reading and argues that the text itself, through Hesiod''s complex mechanism of rendering elements detachable while tethering them to their context for the purpose...