Genealogies Epiques

This book proposes to rethink kinship in early Greek epic poetry. The author interprets, according to the criterion of gender, the discursive form and the narrative function of the genealogical relations as they are expressed in the archaic Greek epic poetry. The focus on the analytic female catalogues attested in this corpus enables the advancement of the hypothesis of the existence of a female-centered poetic tradition that sang the klea gynaikôn in terms of kinship and procreation.