Beyond the Limits of Lyric: The Female Poet of the Hymn to Demeter

This essay investigates the possibility that the Homeric Hymn to Demeter was for entertainment composed by a woman at the Thesmophoria at Eleusis. Arguments are based on the Hymn’s intensely female subject matter and subject positions, and considerations of an appropriate audience and performance co...

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Main Author: Suter, Ann 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Centre [2005]
In: Kernos
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Pages: 17-41
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