Abstract

From Lavish Generosity to Well-Controlled Hoarding : Images of Consumption in Hesiodic Poetry. This paper about the Hesiodic poems explores the chain of metaphors and images which figure the notions of spending and consuming and represent wide movements of goods, whether conceived as generous prodigality or destructive loss which implies seizing, devouring or swallowing.

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