The woman and the lyre: Women writers in classical Greece and Rome - Hardcover

Snyder, Jane McIntosh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853990620 ISBN 13: 9781853990625

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989

Synopsis

In this overview of women writers of antiquity Snyder shows that we have far more evidence for for female literary endeavour than might be thought, analysing works by such authors as Myrtis, Korinna, Leonton, Theano, Hortensia and Egeria among many others, alongside the more famous Sappho.

About this title

About the Author

Jane McIntosh Snyder, professor of classics at The Ohio State University, is the author of Puns and Poetry in Lucretius’ "De Rerum Natura" and (with Martha Maas) of Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece.

Review

"A much-needed survey of women writers in antiquity." Rochelle Snee, Religious Studies Review

 

"The pages of Snyder’s text are filled with stirring revelations about women’s achievements." Susan C. Jarratt, Composition Chronicle

"The discussion of this tradition not only encompasses a vast historical span, but requires a significant degree of both historical and literary reconstruction. Snyder is more than equal to the task, and the result is a volume that is informative, entertaining, and impressive for its command of the scholarly literature. . . . Specialists in the field will want to take this work seriously. General readers will be much enriched by it." M. B. Arthur, Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1853990620
• ISBN 13: 9781853990625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 199