LEADER 04993nam 2201261 a 450 001 9910780446803321 005 20230617023844.0 010 $a0-520-92957-8 010 $a1-59734-651-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929579 035 $a(CKB)111090529079574 035 $a(EBL)223157 035 $a(OCoLC)756585223 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161728 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10224981 035 $a(PQKB)11489774 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223157 035 $a(DE-B1597)520633 035 $a(OCoLC)1114885447 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929579 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058519 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529079574 100 $a20030312d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHesiod's Ascra$b[electronic resource] /$fAnthony T. Edwards 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (223 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23658-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction --$t2. External Relations: Ascra And Thespiae --$t3. Internal Relations: Ascra As Community --$t4. The Agricultural Regime Of Works And Days --$t5. The Shape Of Hesiod'S Ascra --$t6. Persuading Perses --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aIn Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T. Edwards extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century B.C.E.. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and the agricultural regime as Hesiod describes them in Works and Days, Edwards reveals Ascra as an autonomous village, outside the control of a polis, less stratified and integrated internally than what we observe even in Homer. In light of this reading, the conflict between Hesiod and Perses emerges as a dispute about the inviolability of the community's external boundary and the degree of interobligation among those within the village. Hesiod's Ascra directly counters the accepted view of Works and Days, which has Hesiod describing a peasant society subordinated to the economic and political control of an outside elite. Through his deft analysis, Edwards suggests a new understanding of both Works and Days and the social and economic organization of Hesiod's time and place. 606 $aDidactic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFarmers$zGreece$vBiography 606 $aPoets, Greek$vBiography 606 $aAgriculture in literature 606 $aFarm life in literature 606 $aVillages in literature 607 $aAscra (Greece)$xIntellectual life$yTo 500 607 $aVoio?tia (Greece)$xIn literature 607 $aAscra (Greece)$xIn literature 610 $aagriculture. 610 $aancient greece. 610 $aancient history. 610 $aaristocracy. 610 $aboeotia. 610 $aclassical history. 610 $aclassicism. 610 $aclassics. 610 $acommunity. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $adays. 610 $adebt. 610 $adidactic poetry. 610 $afamily life. 610 $afamily structure. 610 $afarmers. 610 $afarming. 610 $agreece. 610 $agreek culture. 610 $agreek democracy. 610 $agreek poetry. 610 $ahamlet. 610 $ahellenism. 610 $ahesiod. 610 $ainheritance. 610 $aliterary criticism. 610 $aliterary. 610 $aliterature. 610 $amorality. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $anorthern greece. 610 $apeasants. 610 $aperses. 610 $apoems. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apoverty. 610 $aproperty. 610 $arural. 610 $asacra. 610 $aself. 610 $asocial history. 610 $avillage. 610 $awealth. 610 $aworks. 615 0$aDidactic poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFarmers 615 0$aPoets, Greek 615 0$aAgriculture in literature. 615 0$aFarm life in literature. 615 0$aVillages in literature. 676 $a881/.01 700 $aEdwards$b Anthony T$0239660 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780446803321 996 $aHesiod's Ascra$91096647 997 $aUNINA