Divine and Human Inventors in Greek Didactic Poetry
Year: 2025
Type: article
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.
Source: The Classical Journal
Author: Athanassios Vergados
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415849830
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