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Book SynopsisAttempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from various perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. This book reveals the interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory.
Trade Review"[A] brilliant and comprehensive collection of essays ... one which will be of great interest to classicists and non-specialists alike."--Monica S. Cyrino, Religious Studies Quarterly
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations xiii Chapter One: Introduction by Laura McClure 3 PART ONE: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 17 Chapter Two: This Voice Which Is Not One: Helen's Verbal Guises in Homeric Epic by Nancy Worman 19 Chapter Three: The Voice at the Center of the World: The Pythias' Ambiguity and Authority by Lisa Maurizio 38 Chapter Four: Just Like a Woman: Enigmas of the Lyric Voice by Richard P. Martin 55 Chapter Five: Keening Sappho: Female Speech Genres in Sappho's Poetry by Andre Lardinois 75 PART TWO: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 93 Chapter Six: Virtual Voices: Toward a Choreography of Women's Speech in Classical Athens by Josine H. Blok 95 Chapter Seven: Antigone and Her Sister(s): Embodying Women in Greek Tragedy by Mark Griffith 117 Chapter Eight: Women's Cultic Joking and Mockery: Some Perspectives by D. M. O'Higgins 137 Chapter Nine: Women's Voices in Attic Oratory by Michael Gagarin 161 PART THREE: THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD AND BEYOND 177 Chapter Ten: The Good Daughter: Mothers' Tutelage in Erinna's Distaff and Fourth-Century Epitaphs by Eva Stehle 179 Chapter Eleven: Ladies' Day at the Art Institute: Theocritus, Herodas, and the Gendered Gaze by Marilyn B. Skinner 201 Chapter Twelve: Windows on a Woman's World: Some Letters from Roman Egypt by Raffaella Cribiore 223 Chapter Thirteen: (In-)Versions of Pygmalion: The Statue Talks Back by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer 240 Bibliography 261 Contributors 289 Index 293
