Hesiod's Kings and Nicarchus' Nestor

Combellack, Frederick M.

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“…Only thus can the basileus' speech have the same powerful effect as the bard's song. 15 In other words, just as the form and content of the poet's speech are seen as inseparable, so too for Hesiod the content of the basileus' settlement and the form in which it is expressed are seen as a unit, and the skill with which a settlement is presented to the litigants is an inherent part of the 'justice' of that settlement. The basileus' settlement of a dispute is thus a speech act just like the bard's poem, an inseparable blend of form and content working as a unit to accomplish a similar effect: the ending of an angry dispute on the one hand, and the soothing of a great grief on the other.…”

Section: Evoi Eneeootv Ipxotievov 8' Dv' Dyuiva Oedv Uts Txdokovrai Amentioning

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The Poetry of Justice: Hesiod and the Origins of Greek Law

Gagarin

1992

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A growing area of contemporary legal scholarship is the field loosely described by the expression ‘law and literature’. One of the many points of intersection between law and literature is the study of legal writing, including the opinions of judges and jurists, as a form of literature. Scholars began to study the works of the Attic orators as literature as early as the first century BC, but their specific concern was with these texts as examples of Attic prose and their literary interest primarily concerned matters of rhetoric and prose style. Similarly, modern scholars who have continued this study of the orators have generally examined legal orations not as a separate genre but as another example of prose literature in the same category with history or epideictic oratory. But forensic oratory can also be studied as a form of literature sui generis, whose worth is determined by the special requirements of this genre. As background for such a study I propose to examine the earliest examples of legal oratory, as seen in the works of Homer and Hesiod.

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Section: Evoi Eneeootv Ipxotievov 8' Dv' Dyuiva Oedv Uts Txdokovrai Amentioning

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The Poetry of Justice: Hesiod and the Origins of Greek Law

Gagarin

1992

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The Programmatic Message of the "Kings and Singers" Passage: Hesiod, Theogony 80-103

Stoddard¹

2003

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In Hesiod's Theogony, the "Kings and Singers" passage, lines 80-103, parallels the poem's Dichterweihe, lines 22-34, in that both portray contact between the Muses and mortals on whom they bestow gifts. The gifts granted Hesiod in the Dichterweihe, a divine voice and a laurel scepter, represent the persuasive powers of �oid�w and basile�w as described in Th. 80-103. The latter passage is thus programmatic for how Hesiod perceives his role as narrator and how he intends to use the Muses' gifts for didaxis. The Prometheus and Hekate passages later in the poem show Hesiod's didaxis in action.

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Hesiod's Kings and Nicarchus' Nestor

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The Poetry of Justice: Hesiod and the Origins of Greek Law

The Poetry of Justice: Hesiod and the Origins of Greek Law

The Programmatic Message of the "Kings and Singers" Passage: Hesiod, Theogony 80-103

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