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Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham
Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham












Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham

Were women's letters written by scribes? Is a text ascribed to a woman simply in order to attack a man (e.g. Many attributions to women are problematic. Hypatia some Hellenistic pamphlets are attributed to Pythagorean women see women in philosophy), personal letters from women, and the 5th-century ce travel diary of Egeria ( Itinerarium Egeriae). Sappho, Corinna, Erinna, Nossis, Sulpicia (1 and 2)), early philosophers (e.g. The known exceptions to male authorship include women poets (e.g. 7.5 and 9.10 see housework), but, although there are many references to literary works by women, very few texts survive.

Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham

Some women could read and write (see literacy), at least to the level needed for their role as guardians of the household stores (e.g. Almost all information about women in antiquity comes to us from male sources.














Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham