Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome - Hardcover

Greene, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806136634 ISBN 13: 9780806136639

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005

Synopsis

In Women of the Earth Lodges, Virginia Peters uses women’s accounts, myths and creation stories, and anthropological and archaeological data to examine the influence and vitality of Plains Indian women. She demonstrates that village life was organized around women’s labor and the women acted as partners with men in economic, social, and religious affairs-functions overlooked by contemporary observers.

About this title

Synopsis

American classicists piece together what information is available from the few surviving texts, mostly fragments, and accounts by men, to interpret women's literature in antiquity. Among their topics are the power of memory in Erinna and Sappho, Homer's mother, gender and innovation in the epigrams of Anyte, and Sulpicia and the rhetoric of disclos

About the Author

Ellen Greene is Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author or editor of four books, including The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry and The New Sappho on Old Age.

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Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806136634
• ISBN 13: 9780806136639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224