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001 2014009860
003 DLC
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008 140325s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014009860
020 $a9781107035195 (Hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPA4009.Z5$bO76 2014
082 00 $a881/.01
084 $aHIS002000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aOrmand, Kirk,$d1962-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Hesiodic Catalogue of women and archaic Greece /$cKirk Ormand, Oberlin College.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $ax, 265 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epics. Through literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue reflects political and social tensions in the archaic period regarding the production of elite status. In particular, Ormand argues that the Catalogue reacts against the "middling ideology" that came to the fore during the archaic period in Greece, championing traditional aristocratic modes of status. Ormand maintains that the poem's presentation of the end of the heroic age is a reflection of a declining emphasis on nobility of birth in the structures of authority in the emerging sixth century polis"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and indexes.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
600 00 $aHesiod.$tCatalogus feminarum.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Ancient / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/35195/cover/9781107035195.jpg