How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature

Contents
Note on Transliterations and Texts
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: A Name of One’s Own
Part I: Lyre. The Singer-Man: Making Poets Male from the Be
1. The Invention of the Singer-Man in Homer
2. Mastering the Muses in Hesiod
3. The Instruments of Song in the Homeric Hymns
Part II: Tool. The Man-Maker: Male Poets Making Male Citizens
4. How to Make Men in Aristophanes
5. The (Gendered) Problem of Plato and the Poets
Part III: Wreath. The Female Homer: Toward a Language for Women Poets
6. Into the Otherworld: Singing Women in Euripides
7. A Woman, or a Poet? Words for Women Poets, from Herodotus to Antipater
Part IV: Bird. A New Kind of Language: Women Poets in Their Own Words
8. Mother Sappho: Creating Women Poets
9. Bards and Birds: Old Terms on Her Terms, from Sappho to Nossis
Conclusion: Beyond Words
References
Index of Passages
General Index