Marriage, Identity, and the Tale of Mestra in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9357166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirk Ormand (0000-0001-9425-1334, Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-338 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Journal of Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9475 • E-ISSN: 1086-3168 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ajp.2004.0030 |
| PMID | 21966749 |
| OpenAlex | W2152110135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 25 |
Fragment 43a of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women tells the lively tale of Mestra, a female shape-shifter who supports her father through serial marriages. I argue that this narrative demonstrates a typical mythic pattern, in which female shape-shifting is both a method of avoiding marriage and emblematic of an unmarried woman's unstable social position. I argue further that this version of Mestra's story in particular represents an attempt to mediate a question that was becoming increasingly important in sixth-century Athens, namely: to which household does a bride belong, her father's or her husband's
Aesthetics · Arranged Marriage · Art · Genealogy · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Position (finance · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |