Poet-seer in Theogony and Works and Days: the future in Hesiod's poetic discourse
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Hesiod, Works and days, Teogony, Poetry, DivinationAbstract
this paper discusses the interface between the poetic and prophetic discourses and the arenas of their special-ists in Archaic Greece based on some passages from Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and days. It starts with the poet’s claim, in the Theogony, that his consecration by the Muses, that is, his reunion with a sacral reality, allows him to celebrate the future. This claim is then exemplified by means of a passage in Works and days.
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