The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome - Softcover

"The pages of Snyder' s text are filled with stirring revelations about women' s achievements."-- Susan C. Jarratt, "Composition Chronicle" "The pages of Snyder's text are filled with stirring revelations about women's achievements."--Susan C. Jarratt, "Composition Chronicle" "The pages of Snyder s text are filled with stirring revelations about women s achievements."Susan C. Jarratt, "Composition Chronicle"" "The discussion of this tradition not only encompasses a vast historical span, but requires a significant degree of both historical and literary reconstruction. Snyder is more than equal to the task, and the result is a volume that is informative, entertaining, and impressive for its command of the scholarly literature. . . . Specialists in the field will want to take this work seriously. General readers will be much enriched by it."M. B. Arthur, "Choice "" "A much-needed survey of women writers in antiquity."Rochelle Snee, "Religious Studies Review " """ " " "A much-needed survey of women writers in antiquity."-- Rochelle Snee, "Religious Studies Review "" "" "

In this overview of women writers of antiquity Snyder shows that we have far more evidence for for female literary endeavour than might be thought, analysing works by such authors as Myrtis, Korinna, Leonton, Theano, Hortensia and Egeria among many others, alongside the more famous Sappho.