richard janko's survey of epic language, on the other hand, suggests that the "catalogue" is very early, nearly contemporary with hesiod's "theogony", and janko sees no reason why the "catalogue" "should not be by the same poet as the "theogony"," who "calls himself hesiod." but a different critical strain, one which views the transmitted homeric and hesiodic poems as ultimate products of rhapsodic recomposition within an oral tradition, would hold that from an initial hesiodic nucleus the "catalogue" arrived at its final form well after period to which hesiod has been assigned. such a scenario could account for perceived anachronisms in the mythological content and in the linguistic character of the poem, but would sidestep the issue of the relation between the "catalogue" as it has been transmitted and the broader corpus of early greek epic.