Making silence speak : women's voices in Greek literature and society / edited by André Lardinois and Laura McClure.

Other author Lardinois, A. P. M. H.
Other author McClure, Laura, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionx, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Greek literature--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Greece.
Greek literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women--Greece. --Social conditions.
Greek language--Spoken Greek.
Speech in literature.
Women in literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-288) and index.
LCCN 00033648
ISBN069100465X (alk. paper)
ISBN0691004668 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PA3067 .M35 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold