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Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry

Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry

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Series: Hellenistica Groningana, Book 26

Literary CriticismAncient Greece

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ISBN10: 9042945796
ISBN13: 9789042945791
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Oct 26 2021
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

It is a well-known and striking fact that HellenisticPoetry is full of powerful and powerfully present women, ranging from Ptolemaicand other queens, to female (semi-) divinities and epic heroines. But theHellenistic era is likewise remarkable for being relatively rich in femaleauthors, specifically in the domain of epigrammatic poetry. This volume sets outto broach not only the question who the powerful women of Hellenistic poetrywere, and what their power consisted of, but also, quite emphatically, in whatways they differ from or resemble previous literary representations of women in, for example, Homeric epic, archaic lyric and Athenian tragedy, andwhy.

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