How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature - Paperback
by Emily Hauser
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248769ISBN-10:691248761UPC:9780691248769Book Category:Literary Criticism, Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Poetry, Ancient & Classical, Gender StudiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCXSSF5PCE
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature
How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender
When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one--aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248769ISBN-10:691248761UPC:9780691248769Book Category:Literary Criticism, Poetry, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Poetry, Ancient & Classical, Gender StudiesSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCXSSF5PCE
Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. She is the author of the bestselling Mythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It and a critically acclaimed trilogy of novels that reimagines the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal.
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