Hesiod, Catalogus feminarum, Fragment 47: Atalanta refuses to marry

Hesiod, Catalogus feminarum, Fragment 47: Atalanta refuses to marry

8th cent. BCE

Epic

Literary source

Fragment incompletely preserved in two versions on papyrus: P. Petrie 1 3(3) = P. Lond. Lit. 32 and P. Oxy. 2488B.

Οr like her: [the very glorious] lord [Schoeneus’
daughter, like the goddesses,] swift-footed godly Atalan[ta]
possessing the Graces’ radiance
she refused to associate with the tribe [of all human beings
hoping to escape] marriage [with men] who live on bread []
for the sake of the long-ankled maiden

Glenn W. Most, Hesiod. The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments, (= Loeb Classical Library; 503), Cambridge, MA 2018.

ἠ’ οἵη Σχοινῆος ἀγακλε]ιτοῖο ἄνακτος
παῖς εἰκυῖα θεῆι]σι ποδώκης δῖ᾽ Ἀταλάν[τη
Χαρί]των ἀμαρύγματ᾽ ἔχο[υσα
πάντων ἀνθρώπων ἀ]παναίνετο φῦλον ὁμιλ[εῖν
ἀνδρῶν ἐλπομένη φεύγ]ειν γάμον ἀλφηστάων[
]τανισφύ[ρ]ou εἵνεκα κού[ρης
] am[ ]vον εννε[
] [ ] ρδ[

Glenn W. Most (ed.), Hesiod. The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments, (= Loeb Classical Library; 503), Cambridge, MA 2018.