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  3. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9780511482243
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482243
Subjects:
Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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Book description

The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection a team of international scholars offers an attempt to explore the poem's meaning, significance and reception. Individual chapters examine the organization and structure of the poem, its social and political context, its relation to other early epic and Hesiodic poetry, its place in the development of a pan-Hellenic consciousness, and attitudes to women. The wider influence of the Catalogue is considered in chapters on Pindar and the lyric tradition, on Hellenistic poetry, and on the poem's reception at Rome. This collection provides a significant approach to the study of the Catalogue.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:'… these papers represent a welcome return to a tantalizing assortment of fragments … This collection is a welcome sign, signalling … attention to a complicated and tantalizing set of fragments. … no student of the Catalogue of Women will come away from this book without a different approach to try out for him or herself, without repeatedly thinking while reading, 'I don't quite remember that fragment …' and wanting to look at the poem anew.'

Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Review of the hardback:'… invaluable … The collection of essays offers numerous intelligent ways of reading a fragmentary and influential poem …'

Source: Journal of Hellenic Studies

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