Abstract
Hesiod'sTheogonyis not overtly concerned with the world of mortals. The place of humans in theTheogonynevertheless holds a certain fascination, perhaps more for what isnotrevealed—our origins, for example—than for what is. Focusing on a relatively neglected passage of the poem (Theogony521-32), I want to trace here the way Hesiod lays out the cosmic coordinates ofkleos(‘fame’ or ‘glory’) with a view to better situating the condition of mortality within the poem as a whole.Kleos, as we will see, is part of the fallout for humans of the battle of wits between Zeus and Prometheus: it is the compensation for their new, temporally inflected existence.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Classics
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