Greene Ellen. Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome

Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,.2005.—257 p.—ISBN-0–8061–3663–4The interpretation of women’s literature in Greek and Roman antiquity is a notoriously challenging enterprise. To be sure, the relative obscurity of historical knowledge surrounding Greco-Roman texts in general invites a higher degree of speculation than modern literary texts generally do. Yet the texts of women authors in ancient Greece and Rome present especially difficult challenges.