Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Hesoid
2. Homer
3. Eight Archaic Poets
4. Solon
5. Simonides
6. Pindar
7. Aeschylus
8. Sophocles
9. Euripides
10. Comic Poets
11. Hellenistic Poets
Conclusion
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mary R. Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities emerita at Wellesley College. A recipient of the National Humanities Award, Lefkowitz is the author and editor of numerous articles and books, including Not Out of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History; Black Athena Revisited; Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths; Women in Greek Myth; and Women's Life in Greece and Rome (with Maureen B. Fant), the last two published by Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

A major book which aims at demolishing the underpinnings of much that has passed for Greek literary criticism . . . its proper application to classical studies will have a very positive effect.
--American Journal of Philology

A valuable collection of evidence, information, and ideas.
--Greece and Rome