The woman and the lyre : women writers in classical Greece and Rome /

• Main Author: Snyder, Jane McIntosh
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, �1989.
• Series: Ad feminam.
• Subjects: Classical literature > Women authors > History and criticism.; Classical literature > Women authors > Translations into English.; Women > Greece > Literary collections.; Women > Rome > Literary collections.; Women > Greece > Intellectual life.; Women > Rome > Intellectual life.; Women and literature > Greece.; Women and literature > Rome.; �Ecrits de femmes > Histoire et critique.; Femmes et litt�erature > Gr�ece.; Femmes et litt�erature > Rome.; �Ecrits de femmes > Traductions anglaises.; LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.; Classical literature > Women authors.; Women.; Women and literature.; Women > Intellectual life.; Klassieke oudheid.; Vrouwelijke auteurs.; Frauenliteratur; Antike; Schriftstellerin; Geschichte 600 v. Chr.-400.; Geschichte 150 v. Chr.-400.; Geschichte (600 v. Chr.-500)- 600.; Geschichte 600 v. Chr.-500.; Greece.; Rome (Empire); Griechisch.; Latein.; Literary collections.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Translations.

Table of Contents:

• Sappho of Lesbos
• Women poets of fifth-century Greece: Myrtis, Korinna, Praxilla, and Telesilla
• Women poets of Hellenistic Greece: Anyte, Nossis, Moero, and Erinna
• Women philosophers of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds
• Women writers in Rome and their successors.