Voices at work : women, performance, and labor in ancient Greece /
Andromache Karanika.
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781421412566
Greek poetry--History and criticism. Working class women in literature. Women employees in literature. Work in literature.