The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece
by
Kirk Ormand
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107035198
ISBN-13
9781107035195
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2014
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.00 x 2.20 cms
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Hesiod's archaic poem, the Catalogue of Women, now survives only in fragments that represent perhaps one third of the original composition. In this book, Kirk Ormand provides the first unified interpretation of the Catalogue of Women in English in more than twenty-five years.
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 archaic period regarding the production of elite status. In particular, Ormand argues that the Catalogue reacts against the 'middling ideology' that came to the fore during the archaic period in Greece, championing traditional aristocratic modes of status. Ormand maintains that the poem's presentation of the end of the heroic age is a reflection of a declining emphasis on nobility of birth in the structures of authority in the emerging sixth century polis.
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