Neighbors and the Poetry of Hesiod and Pindar

This paper explores the category of neighbor from a literary-critical perspective. Hesiod’s depiction in Works and Days of the relationships between neighbors as characterized by random proximity and uncertain ethical status is adopted as a frame for understanding the stylistic approach of the epic poet and the affinities that Pindar’s epinicians show to his work. A case is made for the interpretive utility of the lateral and arbitrary structure of neighboring, and the desirability of such a model alongside the more common idea of genealogical inheritance within the modern scholarly treatment of ancient receptions.

Art · Depiction · EPIC · Frame (networking) · Hesiod · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Poetry · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy