Reviews for The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions

The average rating for The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-02 00:00:00 Willy Whyn G.P. Shipp's "Studies in the Language of Homer" is a short but very dense book. Shipp examines various oddities and anomalies of the language of the Homeric poems. (In the first edition, which I read, he primarily focuses on the Iliad; I gather that the second edition considers the Odyssey in more detail.) Shipp's discussions are very erudite and require knowledge of Greek to appreciate. I assume he wrote this book for an audience of fellow scholars. There is very little here for the general reader to grab onto. My biggest problem with "Studies in the Language of Homer" was that it never answers the question, "So what?" Shipp spends the biggest part of the book looking at the language in Homer's similes in particular. He seems to want to demonstrate that they must be a later addition to the poems. But he never actually makes that argument. He just lays out his data and leaves it up to us to draw our own conclusions. All but the most devoted scholars can safely skip this one.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-10 00:00:00 Michelle Brown I had to read this book for a Classical Literature class and I honestly enjoyed it. It is not like other mandatory reads where my eyes fall closed after only a few pages. This was so interesting and enjoyable.