caa a22 4500 388018356 CHVBK 20180307124917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0066477400001052 doi S0066477400001052 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0066477400001052 Davidson John Victoria University of Wellington Portrait of an Archaic Lady [Elektronische Daten] [John Davidson] Much has been written about Herakles, one of the most significant figures in ancient Greek culture. However, despite the recent range of illuminating studies of various female mythical figures as reflected in both literary and pictorial sources, little attention has been paid to Alkmene, mother of the superhero. Alkmene stands, of course, alongside a number of other mortal women in Greek myth, including most notably Antiope, Danae, Europe, Io and Semele, who bear sons to Zeus. Despite her relationship with Zeus, however, and although undergoing more than her fair share of trials, she is never forced into the sort of extreme dislocation suffered by these other women, being presented to some extent as a ‘normal' wife (of Amphitryon) and mother. The purpose of this paper is to explore the earliest surviving substantial literary portrait of her, found in a passage from Book Four of the pseudo-Hesiodic Catalogue of Women which was later incorporated as preface to the Shield of Herakles. Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 1998 Antichthon Cambridge University Press 32(1998-11), 1-11 0066-4774 32<1 1998 32 ANN https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066477400001052 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066477400001052 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davidson John Victoria University of Wellington NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antichthon Cambridge University Press 32(1998-11), 1-11 0066-4774 32<1 1998 32 ANN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge