Don't Throw Away that Shield! The Pseudo-Hesiodic Scutum Revisited
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Classics (Greek) Abstract:
The mini-epic Shield of Heracles is a failed attempt at humor and sensationalism, defeated by its Pseudo-Hesiodic author’s tentative classicism. Nevertheless it reflects venerable traditions of epic parody and preserves interesting, possibly tendentious local variants of heroic and divine myth.
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