Athanassios Vergados

Biographic Data

ID4682317
NAMEAthanassios Vergados
GIVEN NAMESAthanassios
FAMILY NAMEVergados
SIGNATUREVERGADOS A
AFFILIATIONSFranklin & Marshall College
ORCID0000-0002-3875-644X
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR24
WORKS AS EDITOR3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Studies in Early Greek Theology

    Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios VergadosEDITORBOOKStudies in Early Greek Theology2026

    Dieser Band versammelt fünfundzwanzig Aufsätze von Jenny Strauss Clay, in denen sie untersucht, wie die archaischen Griechen das Göttliche und den Ort des Menschen in der postprometheischen Welt dachten. Zusammen mit Strauss Clays Monographien haben diese Aufsätze in den letzten Jahrzehnten unser Verständnis der frühgriechischen Theologie, wie sie vor allem in der archaischen Hexameterdichtung zum Ausdruck kommt, maßgeblich geprägt. Der erste Tei…

  • Hesiod

    Open AccessJenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios VergadosEDITORBOOKHesiod2025

    Hesiod was and is regarded as one of the founding figures of Greek literature and culture, alongside Homer, and his Theogony is the first extant attempt to give an account of the whole, of the gods and of the cosmos, how it came to be, from what, and how it achieved its present state. Strong parallels can be identified between it and various myths and texts from the ancient Near East. Moreover, it was highly influential on subsequent Greek and La…

  • Hesiodic Reception in Pseudo-Oppian’s Account of the Onagros ( Cynegetica 3.183–250)

    Athanassios VergadosARTICLEPhoenix2025

    This article explores a hitherto unnoticed allusion to Hesiod’s Theogony in the presentation of the onagros in pseudo-Oppian’s Cynegetica . After a discussion of the elements that substantiate the case for pseudo-Oppian’s conscious engagement with Hesiod, I contextualise the onagros episode by comparison with additional passages in the Cynegetica , Oppian’s Halieutica , as well as other famous literary texts. Abstract: Cet article explore une all…

  • Hesiod Theogony 823

    Athanassios VergadosARTICLEClassical Philology2024

    This note proposes reading οὗ χερσὶν μένος ἦεν ἐπ ̓ ἰσχύι ἔργματ ̓ ἐχούσαις at Hesiod Theogony 823

  • Teaching through Images

    Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios VergadosBOOKTeaching through Images2022

  • Ἔτυμα and Ἀληθέα

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter examines one of the last days accounted for in Hesiod’s catalogue of days, the so-called triseinas ( Works and Days 814–18), the correct understanding of which has been debated already in antiquity. The lack of clarity concerning the meaning of the term triseinas and the poet’s comment on the frequent errors in the designation of the day are manifestations of a problem that runs throughout both poems: the distinction between truth (ἀ…

  • Begriffsspaltung III

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    The present chapter discusses another important abstract concept, viz. dike. This time we are not confronted with an abstraction that can have both a positive and a negative aspect, expressed through adjectival attributes. In the case of dike, there is no ontological split as in Eris, either. Instead, in presenting dike Hesiod uses the same means of expression as earlier (adjectival attribution) in order to portray the opposition between genuine …

  • Begriffsspaltung I

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter examines Eris (‘Strife’) and Zelos (‘emulation/jealousy’), two ‘split’ abstract concepts presented programmatically at the opening of the W orks and Days. It argues that what appears in the beginning as a clear-cut opposition between a good and a bad Ἔρις turns out to be not so well-defined after all. The two members of the antithesis begin to resemble each other, and indeed form a unity, just like Heraclitus’ bow in fr . 48, when al…

  • The Powers and Limits of Etymology

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter discusses several instances of Hesiodic etymology in the Theogony and the Works and Days and shows that naming and etymology fulfil a variety of purposes in Hesiod’s poetry: in the Theogony they support the poet’s didactic programme, contribute to the construction of the narrative, lend authority to Hesiod’s versions of the divine stories, function as an organizational principle, and reveal the poet’s reflection on the epic dialect. …

  • Kennings and Riddles

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter discusses a number of riddling expressions in the Works and Days , often referred to in scholarship as kennings. These represent another facet of Hesiod’s ambiguous language in the final part of the Works and Days . Here, the poet goes beyond the difficulties posed by the ‘split’ abstract concepts discussed earlier and actually suggests a tendency for opacity and obscurity. The kennings are riddles that introduce the idea that langua…

  • The Names of the Muses

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    The chapter explores Hesiod’s presentation and etymology of the Muses’ names in the proem of the Theogony . The catalogue of the Muses’ names at vv. 77–9 is prepared by the preceding narrative that repeats words and word-parts cognate with these names. This implicit etymological network has a bearing on questions of poetic authority, especially since it allows Hesiod to contrast his account of the Muses’ number and names from other traditional ve…

  • Etymologizing the Cyclopes

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter focuses on the first explicit etymology of the Theogony , that of the Cyclopes’ collective name. This etymology is treated in two steps: first, the chapter considers how this etymology fits in the context of the Theogony ; thereafter it is examined against the background of the competing traditions regarding the Cyclopes. The ensuing analysis demonstrates that Hesiod not only claims authority for his account but also positions his ve…

  • Hesiod and Early Mythography

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHesiod's Verbal Craft2020

    This chapter explores the ways in which early mythography resonates with Hesiodic. In doing this, it goes beyond the question of whether certain narratives in Hesiod’s poetry (esp. the myth of the five human races) can be viewed as proto-historical accounts, a question posed by earlier scholarship. Rather, the focus lies on the discursive strategies shared by Hesiod and some of the fragmentary early mythographers. These strategies indicate a simi…

  • Hesiod's Verbal Craft

    Athanassios VergadosBOOKHesiod's Verbal Craft2020Cited by: 1

    This study aims to define Hesiod’s place in early Greek intellectual history by exploring a network of issues related to language, knowledge, and authority in Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days . Part I demonstrates how much we can learn about the poet’s craft and his relation to the poetic tradition if we read his etymologies carefully. At the same time, Parts I and II together discuss aspects of the ‘correctness of language’: this correctness…

  • Hermes and the Figs

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERTracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury2019

    This chapter argues that the encomium to the fig preserved on P.Oxy. 17.2084 (third century CE) is a parody of an encomium, performed at a feast in honor of Hermes as a response to another participant’s praise of Hermes as the patron of rhetoric. This chapter argues that the encomium to the fig preserved on P.Oxy. 17.2084 (third century CE) is a parody of an encomium, performed at a feast in honor of Hermes as a response to another participant’s …

  • The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

    Gianfranco Agosti, Andrew Faulkner et al.EDITORBOOKThe Reception of the Homeric Hymns2017

    "The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond. Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively littl…

  • The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristides

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERThe Reception of the Homeric Hymns2016

    This paper explores Aelius Aristides’ engagement with the Homeric Hymns. The possible allusions to the Homeric Hymns in Aristides’ prose Hymns are discussed in the first part, while the second part examines the references to h.Ap. in Aristides’ Or. 28 (περὶ τοῦ παραφθέγματος) and 34 (κατὰ τῶν ἐξορχουμένων), and his use of the term prooimion. It is concluded that (i) Aristides knew the Homeric Hymns, both the longer and some shorter ones; (ii) in …

  • Zusammenspiel von Gattung und Interpretation in Euripides’ Bakchen 266–327

    Athanassios VergadosARTICLEAntike und Abendland2016

  • Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus’ Λουτρὰ Παλλάδος

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHymnic Narrative and the…2015

  • "The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes

    Athanassios VergadosBOOK"The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes2013Cited by: 11

    This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem's relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature, its reception in later literature, its structure, date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. Together, the introduction and the commentary provi…

  • The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

    Athanassios VergadosCHAPTERHomeric Hymns2011

    This chapter looks at the unique presentation of epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Consideration is first given to the function and qualities of epiphanies elsewhere in the Homeric Hymns and other early epic. It is then shown that the Hymn to Hermes, while not containing a conventional scene of epiphany, treats epiphany according to the mode of the god's presentation in early Greek literature. Hermes' epiphany is enacted in performance and …

  • Il Discorso Di Eraclito. Un Modello Semantico E Cosmologico Nel Passaggio Dall'oralità Alla Scrittura – By Laura Gianvittorio

    Open AccessAthanassios VergadosARTICLEReligious Studies Review2011

  • Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids

    Open AccessAthanassios VergadosARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • Comic Epic and Parodies of Epic

    Open AccessAthanassios VergadosARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • The Cattle of the Sun

    Open AccessAthanassios VergadosARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010