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Anyte  

Gilbert Highet and Antony Spawforth

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature
Anyte of *Tegea(fl. early 3rd cent. bc), an Arcadian poetess, much admired in her time and thereafter. About eighteen of her Doric epigrams, mostly funerary, are in the Greek Anthology, and one is ... More

Artemon (5), of Magnesia, Greek author  

M. B. Trapp

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature

Artemon (5), of Magnesia (date uncertain), author of a Famous Exploits of Women, from which *Sopater (2) made excerpts.

Boeo  

Ken Dowden

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature
Boeo, short form of a woman's name (based on ‘Boeotian’ ?).(1) Legendary Delphian (see delphi) author of a *hymn mentioning *Hyperboreans and the prophet *Olen (Pausanias 10. 5. 7–8).(2) Either Boeo ... More

epithalamium  

Eveline Krummen and Donald Russell

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Dec 2015
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature
A song (or speech) given ‘at the bridal chamber (θάλαμος)’ ([Dion. Hal.] Rhet. 4. 1); a regular feature of marriages (see marriage ceremonies). Strictly speaking, it is distinct from the general ... More

masturbation  

Kelly L. Wrenhaven

Online publication date:
Jul 2016
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek History and Historiography, Greek Literature, Greek Material Culture: Classical and Hellenistic, Roman History and Historiography
In ancient Greece and Rome, masturbation was viewed with good-humored disdain. Although it was not apparently subject to the same kinds of scathing attacks that Greek comedy makes on male same-sex ... More

Moero, of Byzantium  

Richard Hunter

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Mar 2016
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature
Female poet of late 4th–early 3rd cent. bce. Only scanty remains survive: ten verses from the hexameter Mnemosyne, two epigrams, a summary of a story of cruelty and mad passion from her Ἀραί ... More

Nossis, fl. c. 300 BCE  

Alan Douglas Edward Cameron

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature
Nossis (fl. c. 300 bce), Greek poetess from Epizephyrian Locri (see locri epizephyrii), author of a dozen epigrams from *Meleager(2)'s Garland in the Greek *anthology, mostly inscriptions ... More

phallus  

Richard Seaford

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Gender Studies, Greek Literature, Greek Material Culture: Classical and Hellenistic, Greek Myth and Religion, Latin Literature, Roman Material Culture, Roman Myth and Religion
Phallus, an image of the penis, often as erect, to be found in various contexts, in particular (a) in certain rituals associated with fertility, notably Dionysiac *processions (see dionysus): see ... More

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