Aeschylus
Against Neaera
Alciphron
Alcman
Ambiguity
Anactoria
Ancient Greek comedy
Anecdote
Another Woman
Aristophanes
Baubo
Castor and Pollux
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Celeus
Clytemnestra
Corinna
Courtesan
Creusa
Cunt
Diodotus (son of Eucrates)
Dramatic monologue
Eleusinian Mysteries
Epigram
Epithalamium
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Erinna
Euripides
Exchange of women
Genre
Halitherses
Harpy
Herodas
Hetaira
Hipponax
Homer
Hubris
Iambe
Independent woman
Iphigenia
Joke
Judith Butler
Longus
Lysistrata
Many Marriages
Miasma (Greek mythology)
Mormo
Muse
Nossis
Obscenity
Only Words (book)
Parody
Parthenos (mythology)
Penia
Phryne
Poetry
Power of Women
Praxiteles
Prostitution
Pun
Pythia
Ridicule
Roman Government
Sensationalism
Sophocles
Sophron
Superiority (short story)
Supplication
The Wife's Story
Theocritus
Thesmophoria
Tiresias
Tragedy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691004662
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Andre Lardinois is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Minnesota and the coauthor, with T. C. Oudemans. of Tragic Ambiguity: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sophocles' Antigone (Leiden). Laura McClure is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (Princeton).
