Stephen Scully

Biographic Data

ID1047594
NAMEStephen Scully
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEScully
SIGNATURESCULLY S
AFFILIATIONSSan Francisco State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS67
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT21
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX3

  • Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

    George Chapman, Homer Homer et al.BOOKChapman's Homeric Hymns and Other…2021

  • Lowell Edmunds: Toward the Characteri-zation of Helen in Homer. Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas

    Stephen ScullyARTICLEGnomon2021

  • Hesiod in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    Adam Lecznar, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter introduces some key moments from Hesiod’s reception during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and offers a starting point for future scholarship in this new field of research. It explores examples of Hesiod’s reception by French, English, and German figures, including Voltaire, John Flaxman, and Friedrich Nietzsche, to demonstrate the European scope of the ancient author’s appeal while also drawing attention to some of the recur…

  • Hesiod Transformed, Parodied, and Assaulted

    Helen Van Noorden, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter covers pagan and early Christian authors of the period 50–250 ce, known as the “second sophistic.” The first section focuses on the Certamen, Athenaeus and Plutarch, considering their revisions of Hesiodic wisdom and the contemporary forms of scholarship on his poems. The second section uses Lucian to showcase “Hesiod parodied” before discussing Aelian, Babrius, and the Sibylline Oracles. Points treated include the cross-referencing …

  • Hesiod and the Visual Arts

    H A Shapiro, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter explores the influence of Hesiod’s Theogony on Greek visual artists of the archaic period (ca. 700–480 bce). Since dozens of divinities and heroes mentioned in the poem appear in sculpture and (more often) vase painting and cannot be systematically treated, one major work with strong Hesiodic associations is examined as a test case. The Attic black-figure dinos signed by the painter Sophilos and dated ca. 580 bce includes more than t…

  • Plato’s Hesiods

    Marcus Folch, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter surveys Hesiodic reception in fourth-century bce prose, with emphasis on Plato and especially the Laws. Passages of the Laws are read in context and used to illuminate the status of Hesiodic poetry in the fourth century. Topics discussed include rhapsodic performance, Hesiod’s relationship to Homer, study of Hesiodic poetry in schools, the fourth-century manuscript tradition, citation of Hesiod’s poems in conversation and Athenian co…

  • Hesiod and Tragedy

    Alan H Sommerstein, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    The only Hesiodic myths taken up by the Greek tragic dramatists are the related stories of Prometheus and the first woman (Pandora); these were exploited in satyr-dramas by Aeschylus and Sophocles, respectively. More important are the tragedies Prometheus Bound and Prometheus Unbound, attributed to Aeschylus (but probably in fact by another hand, perhaps his son Euphorion), in which the tale of Prometheus’s punishment is combined with several oth…

  • Hesiod in Performance

    Egbert J Bakker, Egbert Bakker et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    In this interpretation of the Theogony and Works and Days as acts of performance, the well-known biographical details of Hesiod’s life are treated as part of an authorial persona that inheres in the situation that the poem represents. The singer’s dispute with his brother Perses is not a reality outside the poem; rather, it is created, and settled, in and through the poem. The chapter examines the deictic markers through which the poems achieve t…

  • Hesiod and Pindar

    T Phillips, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter examines Hesiodic elements in Pindar’s “First Hymn” and Pythian 1 and appropriations of Hesiod’s “path to virtue” in the epinicians. Differences between Pindar’s treatment of Zeus’s marriage and cosmic dispensations in the “First Hymn” and Hesiod’s account articulate a greater emphasis on cosmic order and create an identification between the audience’s response to the poem and that of the gods to the newly created cosmos. In Pythian …

  • Hellenistic Hesiod

    Lilah Grace Canevaro, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter uses Callimachus’s Aetia, Aratus’s Phaenomena, and Nicander’s Theriaca to explore the intense engagement with Hesiodic poetry in the Hellenistic period. Informed by statistics for explicit references to Hesiod at this time, it asks: Why is this the only period of antiquity in which the Theogony and the Works and Days are considered equally important? Questions of genre and didaxis, of inspiration and knowledge, are set against a back…

  • Hesiodic Poetics

    Alexander C Loney, Stephen ScullyBOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    In terms of poetics, the contest between Hesiod and Homer seems simultaneously natural and surprising: natural because both of them composed in the artificial “song dialect” and highly formulaic medium of epea, and surprising because Homer’s long, heroic poetry differed so greatly in voice, theme, length, structure, and style from Hesiod’s much shorter, catalogic narrative poetry or from his didactic poetry. This chapter examines Hesiod’s poetry …

  • Ovid’s Hesiodic Voices

    Ioannis Ziogas, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    Ovid’s poetry opens a dialogue with the three major Hesiodic works: the Theogony, the Works and Days, and the Catalogue of Women. The ways in which these works complement or differ from each other are reflected in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, and Fasti. Hesiod’s works are both diverse and integrated, a combination that appealed to Ovid’s versatile genius. Stylistic and thematic aspects of Hesiodic poetry, such as puns and transformations, …

  • The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod

    Alexander C Loney, Stephen ScullyBOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This volume brings together twenty-nine junior and senior scholars to discuss aspects of Hesiod’s poetry and its milieu and to explore questions of reception over two and half millennia, from shortly after the poems’ conception to Twitter hashtags. Rather than an exhaustive survey of Hesiodic themes, the Handbook is conceived as a guide through terrain, some familiar, other less charted, examining both Hesiodic craft and later engagements with He…

  • Hesiod’s Rhetoric of Exhortation

    José M González, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter examines Hesiod’s rhetoric of exhortation under the ancient discourse modality of the ainos. As a mode of discourse focused on audience construction and reception, attention to the Panhellenic shape of Hesiod’s ainetic speech reaffirms the conventionality of the biographical frame narrative. The rhetorical aim of this exhortation is to encourage the audience to join the performer in his praise and censure. After establishing the inte…

  • Seventh-Century Material Culture in Boiotia

    Stephanie Larson, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter briefly discusses aspects of the material culture of seventh-century bce Boiotia in general and makes specific reference to sites and areas of relevance in studying Hesiod, in particular Askra, Thespiai, the Valley of the Muses, Thebes, Plataiai, and Akraiphnia. It pays special attention to the sanctuary of Apollo on the Ismenion hill and to the Herakleion in Thebes, the sanctuary of the hero Herakles, who was worshipped there as an …

  • Hesiod, Virgil, and the Georgic Tradition

    Stephanie Nelson, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    Hesiod’s Works and Days had its greatest influence on English poetry through the Georgics. While Hesiod’s early translators into English—Chapman in 1618, Cooke in 1728, and Elton in 1815—were primarily interested in Hesiod as a theological and moral thinker, it was Virgil’s focus on an essentially problematic relation of the human and nature, as seen in the role of labor and the relation of farming to war and politics, that persisted in the Engli…

  • Hesiod and Comedy

    Jeffrey Henderson, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    Comic dramas, attested as early as the later sixth century bce in Sicily and from ca. 486 bce in Attica, reflect familiarity with Hesiodic poetry from the time our actual documentation begins in the 470s for Sicily and 430s for Attica and into the mid-fourth century bce. Comic poets engaged with Hesiodic poetry at the level of specific allusion or echo and (more frequently) with Hesiodic stories, thought, themes, ideas, and style, now common cult…

  • In Hesiod’s World

    David W Tandy, DAVID TANDY et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    A close analysis of Hesiod’s scheme of production indicates that he is pursuing “extensive surplus-generating agriculture.” Thus, Hesiod is indistinguishable on a rhythmic agricultural basis from the basilēes of the Homeric epics and of his own poems. Hesiod manages the labor of slaves and other dependent workers, and his interests are in opposition to those who provide labor and value to the production process. A second divide is discernible bet…

  • Solon’s Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days

    JOSEPH A ALMEIDA, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018Cited by: 1

    This chapter presents observations about the relationship between the poetry of Hesiod and of Solon (Works and Days 213–326 and Solon frr. 4 and 13). In the first half of fr. 4 Solon, through a series of allusions, incorporates into his poem Hesiod’s authority on dikē to validate condemnation of injustice in his own city, and in the second half of the poem he turns the Hesiodic pessimism of this injustice into an optimistic hope for his city’s ju…

  • Hesiod’s Temporalities

    Alexander C Loney, Stephen ScullyBOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    Temporality is an important aspect of the poetics of both the Theogony and the Works and Days. Hesiod’s temporality can be subdivided into different kinds of synchronic and diachronic temporalities: omnipresent, etiological, and teleological temporalities and seasonal (or kairological) and cyclical temporalities. Each of these modes has its own logic. Furthermore, Hesiod allows these temporal modes to interact with one another in complex and some…

  • The Prehistory and Analogues of Hesiod’s Poetry

    Joshua T Katz, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    Hesiod’s indebtedness to Near Eastern material is more frequently discussed than the Indo-European background of his poetry. This chapter argues for a holistic understanding of how Indo-European prehistory and Near Eastern analogues contribute together to the formation of Hesiodic language and thought. Concentrating on Theogony 35, ἀλλὰ τίη μοι ταῦτα περὶ δρῦν ἢ περὶ πέτρην;, “But what are these things about a tree or a rock to me?,” I demonstrat…

  • Hesiod’s Theogony and the Structures of Poetry

    Benjamin Sammons, Alexander C Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    The Theogony displays a preoccupation with poetic structure that reflects the cosmic and political structures that are its subject. Consequently the structures that support the poem change with the changing world it describes. In the earlier part of the poem the dominant poetic structure is the catalogue, and Hesiod goes far in showing what he can express with this form alone, particularly through juxtaposition, anachrony, allegory, and paradigma…

  • The Hesiodic Question

    Hugo Konig, Alexander Loney et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Hesiod2018

    This chapter attempts to address the so-called Hesiodic Question: who was Hesiod, when and where did he live, what poems did he compose, and in what order? After a brief overview of ancient thoughts on these matters, modern views are briefly discussed, with particular attention to the several scholarly approaches to the dating of the Hesiodic poems. Most of these converge on the beginning of the seventh century bce. Another focus is on Hesiod’s s…

  • The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths

    Stephen ScullyCHAPTERCultural Contact and Appropriation…2017

  • The Reception of the Homeric Hymns by Andrew Faulkner Athanassios Vergados Andreas Schwab

    Stephen ScullyARTICLEPhoenix2017

    BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 395 its own sometimes cumbersome and inelegant subtitle. The rationale for this is clear, but it does have the undesirable effect of significantly disrupting the reading process, a paradoxical quality in a work which seeks to deepen our fascination with the immersive potential of stories. University of Bristol Vanda Zajko The Reception of the HOMERIC HYMNS. Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas S…