Zrození světa: kosmologie básníka Hésioda – Luhanová Eliška (2015)

Under the name of the poet Hesiod, tradition has preserved two extensive epic works: Theogony, or The Birth of the Gods, and Works and Days. His work is now often dated to the end of the 8th century BC and, along with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, forms the oldest literary roots of European thought. The presented book aims to demonstrate that Hesiod is not only a poet but also a distinctive thinker, the very first to attempt to develop a systematic and coherent cosmology in his Theogony, thus standing at the very beginning of European philosophy and science. It approaches his work from philosophical, rather than philological, positions and strives for a systematic reconstruction of the unified Hesiodic universe in the broader context of Greek archaic thought and also with regard to its future organic development, especially among the so-called first philosophers. After all, later thought naturally derived from Hesiod as one of its oldest sources, and Hesiod and Homer were traditionally cited (in this order) as the 'teachers of Hellas.' The subsequent tradition developed and, of course, redefined the possibilities that Hesiod's ancient account of the nature of the world and the place of man within it opened up. A deeper familiarity with this...