Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece

@article{Katz2000SapphoAH,
  title={Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece},
  author={Marilyn A Katz},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={2000},
  volume={25},
  pages={505 - 531}
}
  • M. Katz
  • Published 2000
  • History
  • Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
A 1976 review essay on "Classics" in Signs encompassed ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and ancient Rome (Arthur 1976). In that review it was possible to survey the entire field of recent scholarship on women in all of classical antiquity by focusing on one book, one special issue of the journalArethusa, and a handful of articles.' The eighteen works under review in this essay, by contrast, represent just a selection of just the books published in just three years on (principally) just… Expand
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