Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece

This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod''s Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epics. Through literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue reflects political and social tensions in the...