Hesiod's Body Sublime: Metabolic Aesthetics in the Hesiodic Corpus

Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM PT

Student Center B · UC San Diego · San Diego

The archaic Greek poet, Hesiod, gives us bodies. Godly bodies that consume other gods. Mortal bodies that digest godly gifts. Bodies that amaze, disgust, and turn breath into poetry. This talk interrogates the bodies of the Hesiodic corpus especially for their metabolic capacities and how metabolism