Performance and gender in ancient Greece : nondramatic poetry in its setting

Performance and gender in ancient Greece : nondramatic poetry in its setting /

"Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party." Describing how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle treats poetry as an occasion for the perf...

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Main Author: Stehle, Eva, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton Unviversity Press, 1997
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Sappho > Friends and associates.
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Oral interpretation of poetry > History > To 1500.
Women in the performing arts > Greece.
Bards and bardism > History > To 1500.
Women and literature > Greece.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Sex role > Greece.
Greece > Social life and customs.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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