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Voices at Work : Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece /

"In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Karanika, Andromache, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women, labor and performance in Homer
  • Gender, genre and women's work in The Odyssey
  • Work and performance in captivity
  • Fragments of songs-moments at work
  • Finding work songs, dances, and ritual acts
  • From lullabies to children's songs: some diachronic perspectives in domestic work and the work theme
  • No more weaving: the poetics of interruption
  • Harvesting song tradition.