The Hesiodic Catalogue of women and archaic Greece /
"This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epi...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Εικόνα καλύμματος |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women; 2. The Catalogue and the mystery of the disappearing hedna; 3. Marriage, identity, and the story of Mestra; 4. Atalanta reflects the Iliad; 5. Then there was the one who was Alkmene; 6. The marriage of Helen and the end of the Catalogue; 7. Epilogue: women, middling discourse, and the polis.
