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The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103 MW)

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González, JM
Published in: TAPA
2010

The Catalogue of Women supplies the crucial link between Hesiodic poetry and heroic epic. The heroic world of archaic poetry cannot be fully understood without it. But the interpretation of fragment 204 MW, which describes the end of the heroic age, has long been burdened with misleading and unnecessary assumptions. This article challenges three particularly influential ones: that the passage contrasts demigods to “ordinary” mortals; that Zeus only feigns to destroy the demigods; and that [βιοτον κα]ι is an acceptable supplement to line 103. My analysis shows that the Catalogue does not represent a departure from, but a creative reappropriation of, traditional epic material.

Duke Scholars

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TAPA

Publication Date

2010

Volume

140

Issue

2

Start / End Page

375 / 422

Related Subject Headings

  • Classics
  • 2103 Historical Studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2004 Linguistics
 

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González, J. M. “The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103 MW).” TAPA 140, no. 2 (2010): 375–422.
González, J. M. “The Catalogue of Women and the End of the Heroic Age (Hesiod fr. 204.94–103 MW).” TAPA, vol. 140, no. 2, 2010, pp. 375–422.

Published In

TAPA

Publication Date

2010

Volume

140

Issue

2

Start / End Page

375 / 422

Related Subject Headings

  • Classics
  • 2103 Historical Studies
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2004 Linguistics