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Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece

Anne L Klinck author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:15th Dec '08

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Considering women's voices in performance, this book provides a perspective on women's 'writing.' It demonstrates that woman's song is ultimately best understood as the product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine stereotypes, while refined by skilful male poets, are interrogated and shifted by female poets.A collection, translation, and study of poetry - male-authored, female-authored, and anonymous - created for women's voices in ancient Greece

"Most books on women in Greece concentrate on one feature: women poets, women's lives, women in tragedy. Klinck brings all these threads together." M. Eleanor Irwin, classics, University of Toronto "A wonderful book Klinck adds interesting parallels from medieval and other traditions that are not generally known to classicists." Andr P. Lardinois, classics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

ISBN: 9780773534483

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 568g

312 pages