How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser

How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

Emily Hauser

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nonfiction gender history literary poetry
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How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen 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...

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