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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511115563
  • 9780511115561
  • 0511181922
  • 9780511181924
  • 9780511482243
  • 0511482248
  • 1107150205
  • 9781107150201
  • 1280458321
  • 9781280458323
  • 0511199031
  • 9780511199035
  • 0511326793
  • 9780511326790
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hesiodic Catalogue of women.DDC classification:
  • 881/.01 22
LOC classification:
  • PA4009.Z5 H47 2005eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, maps the Greek world and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection leading scholars offer the first exploration of the meaning, significance, and reception of this fascinating and highly influential poem.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-341) and indexes.

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.

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The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, maps the Greek world and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children to the gods. In this collection leading scholars offer the first exploration of the meaning, significance, and reception of this fascinating and highly influential poem.

English.

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