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Divine and Human Inventors in Greek Didactic Poetry

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Athanassios Vergados

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Abstract

In this article I examine how three didactic poems (Hesiod's Works and Days, Aratus' Phaenomena, Oppian's Halieutica) envisage the role of divine intervention in equipping humans with knowledge in the field that they purport to teach. By asking what gods teach men and what kind of impact this knowledge has on human life, it will emerge that the interaction between gods and men has ramifications for the extent of the poets' belief in progress and their conceptualization of the difference between man and god and man and animal.

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Author(s): Vergados A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Classical Journal

Year: 2025

Volume: 121

Issue: 1

Pages: 25-48

Print publication date: 04/11/2014

Online publication date: 04/11/2025

Acceptance date: 01/09/2024

ISSN (print): 0009-8353

ISSN (electronic): 2327-5812

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2025.a973537

DOI: 10.1353/tcj.2025.a973537

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