The "Women's Tradition" in Greek Poetry

Bibliographic Data

ID3938382
AuthorsLaurel Bowman (0000-0002-6146-0356, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume58
Issue1/2
Pages1
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4135194
OpenAlexW2083539817
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited33

SCHOLARSHIP ON THE ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE POETS has flourished in recent years.' It has become increasingly common for scholars working in this field to speak of a in Greek poetry, and to attempt exegesis of what female-authored poetry survives in terms of such a tradition.2 Even those scholars who do not refer specifically to a tend to describe women's poetry from the ancient world in terms that assume one.3 Definitions of such a tradition vary from a wide-ranging oral poetic tradition nurtured in the women's communities of archaic, classical, and Hellenistic Greece, to a literary relationship between female poets who engage with the work of other female poets in their own. This paper will examine the evidence that has been used to support the hypothesis of the existence of a poetic in the poetry of ancient

Art · Literature · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Linguistics and language evolution

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