Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters
Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 8 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350401754
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of modern French and Anglo-American feminist theory, Pontoropoulos creates an analytical framework using the scholarship of Hi??1?2li??1?2ne Cixous and Alice Jardine. On the ancient side, the literary representations of women in the letter collections of Aelian, Alciphron and Aristaenetus form the main corpus of study.
In this volume, Pontoropoulos structures his argument around three pertinent questions: can ancient fictional letters written by men tell us anything about their ancient representations of women? How do these letters inform our modern understanding of concepts such as gender and agency? Do these letter collections succeed in providing the reader with a variety of fictional female characters? The women in these literary collections are presented as speaking, rhetorical subjects that subvert the expected discourses of desire and shift the perspective from the male to the female point of view. In this sense, they not only present the reader with a highly-layered intertext, but also with a text that challenges expected gendered norms.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Feminist Theory and Ancient Fictional Epistolography
2. Literary Representations of Women in Alciphron's Letter Collection
3. Female Voices in Aelian's Letters of the Farmers
4. Aristaenetus' Letters
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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