| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Laura McClure -- This voice which is not one : Helen's verbal guises in Homeric epic / Nancy Worman -- The voice at the center of the world : the Pythias' ambiguity and authority / Lisa Maurizio -- Just like a woman : enigmas of the lyric voice / Richard P. Martin -- Keening Sappho: female speech genres in Sappho's poetry / André Lardinois -- Virtual voices : toward a choreography of women's speech in classical Athens / Josine H. Blok -- Antigone and her sister(s) : embodying women in Greek tragedy / Mark Griffith -- Women's cultic joking and mockery : some perspectives / D.M. O'Higgins -- Women's voices in Attic oratory / Michael Gagarin -- The good daughter : mothers' tutelage in Erinna's Distaff and fourth-century epitaphs / Eva Stehle -- Ladies' day at the Art Institute : Theocritus, Herodas, and the gendered gaze / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Windows on a woman's world : some letters from Roman Egypt / Raffaella Cribiore -- (In- )Versions of Pygmalion : the statue talks back / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer |
| Summary |
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, Andre Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D.M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- Greece
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Greek literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Women -- Greece -- Intellectual life
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Women -- Greece -- Social conditions
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Greek language -- Spoken Greek
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Speech in literature.
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Greek language -- Spoken Greek
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Greek literature
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Speech in literature
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Women -- Intellectual life
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Women -- Social conditions
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Griekse oudheid.
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Vrouwen.
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Taalgebruik.
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Invloed.
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Letterkunde.
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lardinois, A. P. M. H., editor.
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McClure, Laura, 1959- editor.
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| LC no. |
00033648 |
| ISBN |
9780691187594 |
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0691187592 |
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