What is it about?
This book strives to set the fragments of the Hesiodic /Catalogue of Women/ in the social and ideological contexts of the 6th century BCE. In particular, I argue that the /Catalogue/ is a deliberately aristocratic text during the period of emerging city states and "middling" ideology. I read several of the longer extant passages, and demonstrate their interaction with other hexameter texts the period (especially the /Iliad/ and /Odyssey/).
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Why is it important?
This is the first monograph on the fragments of the /Catalogue of Women/ in English since M.L. West's publication in 1985.
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This page is a summary of: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece, April 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781139547352.
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