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grbs-2061	Larson, Stephanie	Boiotia, Athens, the Peisistratids and the Odyssey’s Catalogue of Heroines	2000	30	.pdf	application/pdf	11424	493	61	”1 As is well known, ancient Greeks were fond of catalogues, especially those recounting heroic genealogies, such as the Hesiodic Ehoiai, another early example of a specifically female- oriented catalogue.2 Such lists were not concerned solely with portraying women per se, although the female figures of catalogues were significant mythological characters. Consider Odysseus’ own words as he begins his catalogue in the Odyssey: éristÆvn êloxoi ¶san ±d¢ yÊgatrew , “they were the wives and daughters of the best men” (11.227).3 Brief mention of heroines in catalogues thus served to recall myths of related heroes; it was the womens’ male relations who mattered most, their 1 The following are cited by authors’ names alone: T. GANTZ, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore 1993); J. LARSON, Greek Heroine Cults (Madison 1995); A. SCHACHTER, Cults of Boiotia (BICS 38.1–4	cache/grbs-2061.pdf	txt/grbs-2061.txt