This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in
antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where
they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature
and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of
binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as
insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays
reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between
women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and
oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a
diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of
the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by
women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho.
Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest
definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's
voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's
speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and
reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female
voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and
aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella
Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, Andre Lardinois, Richard
Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia
Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman."
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