Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Memory Studies -- 2. Hesiod and Collective Memory -- 3. This Book -- 4. Getting started: The Commemograms -- PART ONE: HESIOD AND HOMER -- 1: Introduction: Equating Hesiod and Homer -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Lumping and Splitting -- 2. Modern Scholarship -- 3. Lumping in Antiquity -- 3.1. Hesiod and Homer in Time -- 3.2. Hesiod and Homer in Greek Society: Performance, Symposia, Schools -- Appendix: The Hesiod-Homer Sequence -- 2. The Boundless Authority of Hesiod and Homer -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Authority of Homer -- 2. Herodotus on Greek Theology -- 3. Hesiod and Homer as Lawgivers -- 4. Dealing with Poetic Authority: Reactions and Counter-Reactions -- 4.1. A Frontal Attack on Fellows -- 4.2. Strategies of Defence -- 4.2.1. Selection -- 4.2.2. Altering the Surface -- 4.2.3. Allegorical Reading -- 4.2.4. The Freedom of Poets -- 4.2.5. Harmonization -- 5. Conclusion -- 3. Hesiod and Homer: The Storekeepers of Knowledge -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Hesiod and Homer as Philosophers -- 2. Old Knowers: An Exclusive Category -- 2.1. Making Groups: The Sophists -- 2.2. Hesiod and Homer versus the Tragedians -- 2.3. Hesiod and Homer as Historians -- 3. Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE 'REAL' HESIOD -- 4. Introduction: Searching for Hesiod -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Biographical Tradition -- 2. The Mechanisms of Memory -- 2.1. The Practice of Assimilation -- 2.2. The Catchword-Factor -- 2.3. The Principle of Snowballing -- 2.4. The Principle of Clustering -- 2.5. The Homeric Factor -- 2.6. The Persona's Paradox -- 3. Conclusion -- 5. Ethics and Politics: The Common and the Arcane -- 0. Introduction: Hesiod the Wise -- 1. Hesiod's Demons -- 2. Justice and the City -- 3. People and their Dealings -- 4. Moderation and Simplicity -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Philosophy: Great and Small -- 0. Introduction.

1. Natural Philosophy -- 2. The Problem of Revelation -- 2.1. The Attack on Revelation (Xenophanes and Heraclitus) -- 2.2. Revelation Modified (Parmenides and Empedocles) -- 2.3. The Use of Good Old-Fashioned Revelation (Protagoras and Prodicus) -- 3. Language and Truth -- 4. Conclusion -- PART THREE: HESIOD VERSUS HOMER -- 7. Introduction: The Contest of Hesiod and Homer -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Lumping and Splitting Again: Polar Opposition -- 2. The Tradition of the Contest -- 2.1. The Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi -- 2.2. Other Contests -- 3. Hesiod versus Homer: Points of Divergence -- 8. Swords and Ploughshares -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Modern Scholarship -- 2. Fighting and Farming -- 3. The King and the People -- 4. Hesiod's Crossing and Homer's Expansion -- 5. Conclusion -- 9. The Other Poetics -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Truth and Fiction -- 1.1. Lying Muses -- 1.2. Homer as a Philosopher of Language -- 1.3. Believing the Poet -- 2. The Poet's Craft: Inspiration and Perspiration -- 2.1. Modern Scholarship -- 2.2. The Impact of Plato: The Manic Poet -- 2.3. The Hellenistic Hesiod: On Wine and Water -- 3. The Hesiodic Genre: The Rise of a Didactic Poet -- 3.1. The interpretatio latina -- 3.2. Hesiod in the Handbooks -- 4. Beauty and Style -- 5. Boundary Crossing -- 5.1. Crossing -- 5.2. Homeric expansion -- 6. Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum.