Diane J. Rayor

André Lardinois

A New Translation of the Complete Works

Sappho

Laura McClure

Laura Mac Clure

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, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society

Making Silence Speak

Th.C.W. Oudemans

Anthropology, Philosophy and Sophocles' Antigone

Tragic Ambiguity

Graceful modern translations of all the surviving poems and fragments of Sappho, Greece's most famous woman poet.

Vincent Hunink

van der Poel

This collection of essays, dedicated to A.H.M. Kessels, provides an overview of modern Dutch scholarship in Greek and Latin studies with special emphasis on dreams in classical literature, classical drama and the reception of Homer.

Greek and Latin Studies in Honour of A.H.M. Kessels

Land of Dreams

Josine Blok

M.G.M. van der Poel

Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and private religions.

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 8

Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion

Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World

André Lardinois

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