The Hesiodic Catalogue of women : constructions and reconstructions / edited by Richard Hunter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hesiod. Catalogus feminarum.

Hesiod--Characters--Women.

Hesiod--Authorship.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Women and literature--Greece.

Genealogy in literature.

Women--Mythology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ordering women in Hesiod's Catalogue / Robin Osborne

The beginning and end of the Catalogue of women and its relation to Hesiod / Jenny Strauss Clay

Gods among men? The social and political dynamics of the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Elizabeth Irwin

Heracles in the Hesiodic Catalogue of women / Johannes Haubold

Mestra at Athens: Hesiod fr. 43 and the poetics of panhellenism / Ian Rutherford

A catalogue within a catalogue: Helen's suitors in the Hesiodic Catalogue of women (frr. 196-204) / Ettore Cingano

Pulp epic: the Catalogue and the Shield / Richard P. Martin

The Megalai Ehoiai: a survey of the fragments / Giovan Battista D'Alessio

Ordered from the Catalogue: Pindar, Bacchylides, and Hesiodic genealogical poetry / Giovan Battista D'Alessio

The Hesiodic Catalogue and Hellenistic poetry / Richard Hunter

From genealogy to Catalogue: the Hellenistic adaptation of the Hesiodic catalogue form / Helen Asquith

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Latin poetry / Philip Hardie

Or such as Ovid's Metamorphoses ... / Richard Fletcher.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-341) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-15020-5

1-280-45832-1

0-511-18192-2

0-511-11556-3

0-511-19903-1

0-511-32679-3

0-511-48224-8

0-511-11501-6

OCLC:

252518728