{"title":"Hesiodic Justice and the Canonicity of the Catalogue of Women","authors":"Connor Purcell Wood","doi":"10.1086/730586","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Evidence is sparse for the grounds on which ancient audiences and critics decided that certain poems were Homeric or Hesiodic. As the original Hesiodic canon was large and disparate, thematic preoccupations and narrative arc provide a better basis for canonization than purely “literary” style. Hesiodic poetry portrays a myth-history organized by Zeus’ sovereignty and justice in a markedly different way from Homeric poetry. Comparative evidence is adduced from the Catalogue of Women and the Shield of Heracles to explain why ancient readers nearly universally considered Hesiod to be their author.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/730586","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evidence is sparse for the grounds on which ancient audiences and critics decided that certain poems were Homeric or Hesiodic. As the original Hesiodic canon was large and disparate, thematic preoccupations and narrative arc provide a better basis for canonization than purely “literary” style. Hesiodic poetry portrays a myth-history organized by Zeus’ sovereignty and justice in a markedly different way from Homeric poetry. Comparative evidence is adduced from the Catalogue of Women and the Shield of Heracles to explain why ancient readers nearly universally considered Hesiod to be their author.
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Classical Philology has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the Ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics from a variety of interpretative points of view. CP welcomes both longer articles and short notes or discussions that make a significant contribution to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Any field of classical studies may be treated, separately or in relation to other disciplines, ancient or modern. In particular, we invite studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosophy, social life, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Innovative approaches and originality are encouraged as a necessary part of good scholarship.