After considering the audience and the function of different modes of performance - community, bardic, and participation in closed groups - Stehle explores this

"Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party." Describing

The songs of working women are reflected in Greek poetry and poetics. In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These expe

Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquityProvides a focus on gender on its own terms and outside the c

Examines women whose influence was positive, as well as those whose reputations were more notoriousSupremely well researched from many different historical sour