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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender. When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one -- aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who se was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways the...
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