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Woman´s Songs in Ancient Greece
Anne L. Klinck
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Description for Woman´s Songs in Ancient Greece
Paperback. By considering women's voices in performance, this book provides a fresh perspective on women's 'writing'. It shows that our understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls' and women's choral songs from the archaic period. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
A collection, translation, and study of poetry - male-authored, female-authored, and anonymous - created for women's voices in ancient Greece
A collection, translation, and study of poetry - male-authored, female-authored, and anonymous - created for women's voices in ancient Greece
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773534490
SKU
V9780773534490
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About Anne L. Klinck
Anne L. Klinck has recently retired from the University of New Brunswick, where she taught medieval literature and English language. Her previous books include The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study and An Anthology of Ancient and Med
Reviews for Woman´s Songs in Ancient Greece
"Most books on women in Greece concentrate on one feature: women poets, women's lives, women in tragedy. Klinck brings all these threads together." M. Eleanor Irwin, classics, University of Toronto "A wonderful book ... Klinck adds interesting parallels from medieval and other traditions that are not generally known to classicists." Andre P. Lardinois, classics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen