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Catalogue of Women (Ehoiai)

Γυναικῶν κατάλογος

Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

◇ Doubted: the attribution is disputed; the attribution is uncertain. Most scholars date it to the 6th century BCE, after Hesiod.

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Epic and hexameter poetry

Conjecturedvery likely class

Attributed to Hesiod

Catalogue of Women

Γυναικῶν κατάλογος

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

◇ Doubted: the attribution is disputed; the attribution is uncertain. Most scholars date it to the 6th century BCE, after Hesiod.

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in fragments

Survives in quotations and in dozens of papyrus fragments from Egypt.

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Probable

Probably held in the Library.

In the cupboard: no source names the Alexandrian copy, but its scholars' use of it makes one very likely.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references (2)
  • Papyri from Oxyrhynchus and other Egyptian towns
  • Pausanias and the scholia (quotations)
Modern scholarship (2)
  • R. Hunter (ed.), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
  • G. W. Most, Hesiod, 2 vols (Loeb Classical Library 57, 503; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006-2007).

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