Hesiod’s “Catalogue of Women”: Introduction to Reading Literary Fragments

A two-session online class that picks apart one of antiquity’s trickier literary problems: the *Catalogue of Women*, a lost poem attributed to Hesiod that survives only in fragments, many of them recovered from Roman Egypt. Instructor and ISAC scholar Tasha Vorderstrasse leads the course on Thursday evenings, October 1 and 8, from 5 to 7 PM, covering how papyrological fragments are published and read, as well as what the surviving text reveals about women in ancient Greece. No knowledge of Greek is required. The class is $30 and will be recorded for later viewing if you can’t attend live.