Voices at work : women, performance, and labor in ancient Greece / Andromache Karanika.

Women, performance, and labor in ancient Greece

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-289) 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.