The first unified interpretation of the Catalogue of Women in English in more than twenty-five years, in the context of related poetry from the time
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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women; Date, Genre, Performance; Toward a Theory of Archaic Poetic-Political Discourse; Catalogues, Genealogies, and Women; Conclusion; 2 The Catalogue and the Mystery of the Disappearing Hedna; Hedna in Homer: Gifts, Bridewealth, Dowry; Solon and Middling Ideologies of Marriage; Hedna in the Catalogue of Women; The Catalogue's Portrayal of Hedna; The Moment of Transfer; Dôra and Hedna; Disputes over Hedna; Hedna as a Competition; Conclusion
3 Marriage, Identity, and the Story of MestraThe Hesiodic Story of Mestra; Putting Mestra in Context: Myths of Shape-Shifters; Putting Mestra in Context: Marriage in Sixth-Century Athens; 4 Atalanta Reflects the Iliad; Atalanta in the Catalogue and Wider Greek Myth; The Story; Marriage and Familial Structures; Atalanta as Achilles; Conclusions; 5 Then There Was the One Who Was Alkmene; The Text and the Back Story; The Plot of Zeus, Another Preview; Herakles' Other Father; Recalling Odysseus; Conclusions; 6 The Marriage of Helen and the End of the Catalogue
The Heroes as Wooers, Helen as BrideThe Beginning of the End of the Age of Heroes; The End of the Age of Heroes; 7 Epilogue: Women, Middling Discourse, and the Polis; The Other "Catalogue of Women"; Dedications and the Polis; Helen and Agariste; Appendix A Dowry in the Homeric Poems?; Appendix B The Ruling Concerning the Hedna of Mestra (fr. 43a.41-43); Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index
