Thucydides and Hesiod

The puzzling reference by Thucydides, during his account of Demosthenes’ Aetolian campaign in 426, to the death of Hesiod, can be explained as an instance of foreshadowing through myth: Hesiod’s tragic end prepares the reader for the tragic consequences of Demosthenes’ decisions. A similar use of mythical foreshadowing in Herodotus is compared

Editing anonymous Greek tragedy

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Reperformances and the transmission of texts

Abstract:This chapter analyses the impact of reperformance traditions on the transmission of the texts of classical drama, including, but not limited to, the question of actors’ interpolations and adaptations.</jats:p

Dancing with Stesichorus

The unfortunate John Malalas, the sixth-century chronographer whose errors formed the target of Richard Bentley’s first major work of scholarship, at one point makes a reference to “Stesichorus and Bacchylides, who were inventors of the dance and poets”