Making Silence Speak : : Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society / / André Lardinois, Laura McClure.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lardinois, André,; McClure, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction / McClure, Laura -- PART ONE: T H E ARCHAIC PERIOD -- CHAPTER TWO. This Voice Which Is Not One / Worman, Nancy -- CHAPTER THREE. The Voice at the Center of the World / Maurizio, Lisa -- CHAPTER FOUR. Just Like a Woman / Martin, Richard P. -- CHAPTER FIVE. Keening Sappho / Lardinois, André -- Part Two: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD -- CHAPTER SIX. Virtual Voices / Blok, Josine H. -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Antigone and Her Sister(s) / Griffith, Mark -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Women's Cultic Joking and Mockery / O'Higgins, D. M. -- CHAPTER NINE. Women's Voices in Attic Oratory / Gagarin, Michael -- Part Three: THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD AND BEYOND -- CHAPTER TEN. The Good Daughter / Stehle, Eva -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Ladies' Day at the Art Institute / Skinner, Marilyn B. -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Windows on a Woman's World / Cribiore, Raffaella -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. (In-)Versions of Pygmalion / Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index