The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore interpretive questions referring not only to the better-studied
Catalogue of Women and the Aspis, but also to rather neglected epics such as the
Megalai Ehoiai, the Melampodia, and the Marriage of Ceyx. In addition, a fair number of the papers included in this volume question the order of the Hesiodic fragments adopted in the edition of R. Merkelbach and M. L. West.
Irini Kyriakou earned her PhD at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (2016). She teaches ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Cyprus (Adjunct Lecturer). She has published the monograph
Généalogies épiques. Les fonctions de la parenté et les femmes ancêtres dans la poésie épique grecque archaïque (Walter de Gruyter, 2020). She is now preparing a commentary on the Hesiodic Melampodia (
The Fragments of the Melampodia: Introduction, Text and Commentary, OUP).
Jonathan L. Ready is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent monograph is
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad (2023).
Christos C. Tsagalis is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Member of the Academia Europaea. He is the author most recently of
Early Greek Epic Fragments II: Kreophylos ad Peisandros (2022) and
Early Greek Epic: Language, Interpretation, Performance (2023).
Contributors are Irini Kyriakou, Zoe Stamatopoulou, Andrea Ercolani, Livio Sbardella, Adele Teresa Cozzoli, Stefano Vecchiato.
Preface
Introduction Irini Kyriakou
Siblings in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Zoe Stamatopoulou
In Dialogue with Tradition: Reassessing the Relationships between the Aspis and the Ehoiai Andrea Ercolani
The Alcmene Ehoie: Functional Developments of an Epic Text Livio Sbardella
Tracing Melampus in the Hesiodic Melampodia (frr. 270–272 M.-W.) Irini Kyriakou
Some Remarks on the Hesiodic Wedding of Ceyx Adele Teresa Cozzoli
An Amusing Forgery: Hesiod on Salted Fish (fr. 372 M.-W.) Stefano Vecchiato
Index
All students and scholars of ancient Greek epic will wish to consult this volume.