The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece

ISBN-13: 9781316624913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 275 str.

Kirk Ormand

Opis

The first unified interpretation of the Catalogue of Women in English in more than twenty-five years, in the context of related poetry from the time.

Recenzje

'… [a] strenuously argued and very convincing book … Ormand imbues the Hesiodic Catalogue with an energetic, coherent emotional life, and somewhat sorrowful political purpose, to a degree that I can hardly imagine being surpassed.' Eve A. Browning, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

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.