Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in Its Setting

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"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 performer's self-presentation. She discusses a wide range of pre-Hellenist

"Stehle has set about the important and arduous task of situating existing texts and text fragments of ancient Green nondramatic poetry in their performative contexts ... This is a thorough analysis ... clearly written and compelling, a valuable resource for classics, gender, and performance studies scholars and students."--Classical World