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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Melinno

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20012

Blurb:

(fl. c. 200–150 BC)

The fate of the poetry of Melinno is fairly typical of that of many women authors from antiquity. Stobaeus, a Greek writing in the fifth century AD, quotes one short poem by her. This is the only reference we have both to Melinno and to her work.

 

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