Carolina López-Ruiz

This book is among a growing number of books that I have come across that work with what I would like to call the greater canon. This greater canon is not a collection against which documents outside it are judged. Rather it is a canon in the sense of the ever growing list of ancient documents ranging from the beginning of writing to the formulation of the Christian canon (to give an arbitrary end date). Primarily this book works with Hesiod's Theogony to place it in its context of the ancient near eastern literatures, especially the proximate ones such as the Ugaritic and Hittite (and even Israelite) more so than the Babylonian, etc. Also of interest is Hesiod's relationship to the later? Orphic theogonies including the (relatively) recently published Derveni Papyrus.… (meer)