Descent from Deucalion

The descendants of Deucalion, as listed in the Catalog of Women (which I haven't finished yet, so this may change).  Interesting that the geneographers mostly found men worth mentioning (the chart is colour coded). 

Persepolis

I had no idea Telemachus had a daughter. I had no idea he married Nestor's daughter.  Here is her ancestry:

Playing with family tree software and Hesiod's Catalog of Women

As a sideline to a digital project I've been putting together for years on geography and myth (myths.uvic.ca)  I have been experimenting with family tree software (MacFamilyTree 8), which allows one to put in locations of events and then generates a map.  I've decided to try to generate family trees for, and map, the fragments of Hesiod's Catalog of Women.  For example: 

Generating a family tree of "descendants of Proetus", as far as I've got so far, produces a map showing that the two places the family appears are in Lykia (birthplace of Proetus' wife) and Argos.  This pairing of families in Asia Minor and Greece shows up surprisingly often in Bronze Age myth.

However reading the fragments is rewarding in itself, and raises constant questions.  For example: about the daughters of Proetus Probus, in the scholia to Virgil, says that the Catalog tells us 

"These (the daughters of Proetus), because they had scorned the divinity of Juno, were overcome with madness, such that they believed they had been turned into cows, and left Argos their own country. Afterwards they were cured by Melampus, the son of Amythaon."

Okay, fine, but still I have a few questions.  How exactly did Melampus cure them of their belief that they were cows? 

"Ladies: look.  Over there.  Right there, yes. That's a cow."
"Moooo!"
"Right!  THAT is a cow.  Now look at each other. Each OTHER.  Do you look like cows?"
Pause. "M...mooo??"
"Right! You're different! That's because you are NOT cows.  YOU ARE NOT COWS. Got it?"
Silence. 
"NOT COWS."
Silence.  
One Proetid, hesitantly:   "Bahkkk buck buck bahhkk?""
"...Right. We'll try this from the beginning."

Study leave, again!

I finally finished the article on women in Hellenistic epigram, sent off the page proofs, and it is officially Off My Desk.   I have finished teaching my summer course. So I am off until the end of December, barring a little administrative work.

So, what to do?  Well, first, the administrative work. But next?

My study leave projects are:

• Article on Aristotle, The Two Plots, René Girard, and How Reading Good Fiction Cultivates Virtue.
• Commentary on Memorial.
• ?

That may be enough. I only have 7 months.