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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Hedyle

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19998

Blurb:

(fl. c. 310 BC)

The only information we have for the poet Hedyle, and the only extant fragment of her work, comes in a discussion of different types of fish in a fictitious dialogue by Athenaeus called the Scholars at Dinner (Deipnosophistai).

Chapter Contributors

  • Ian Plant (book-auth-14@equinoxpub.com - book-auth-14) 'Macquarie University'