Nowadays, we take this kind of thing for granted, but in the Roman society of his day it must have demanded an immense leap of the imagination. But, as far as I know, Ovid is the very first male writer (outside the theater and some girls’ choruses by the Spartan poet Alcman) to write in a woman’s voice.
There were women writing in their own personae in the Greco-Roman cultural world. Even on those occasions when men bothered to write about women, the words come to us from a male point of view, full of ignorance and prejudice. As Philip Freeman has written in an introduction to the Greek poet Sappho,Īlmost everything written in ancient times, from Homer to Saint Augustine, was composed by men. OL21150505W Page_number_confidence 94.64 Pages 282 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220901222552 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 278 Scandate 20220826031111 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781138722163 Tts_version 5.One of the least remarked and most remarkable qualities of Ovid’s writing is the attention he paid to women. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:55:08 Associated-names Murgatroyd, Paul, translator, writer of supplementary textual content Reeves, Bridget, translator, writer of supplementary textual content Parker, Sarah (Classicist), translator, writer of supplementary textual content Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40677517 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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