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Cantarella, Eva,Pandora’s Daughters: The Role and Sta-
tus of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity, translated
by Maureen B. Fant, Johns Hopkins University Press,
1987.
This book uses literary, judicial, and anecdotal
sources to help readers distinguish accurate
information about women’s lives during the
classical period.
Deuel, Leo,Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manu-
scripts and Records, Knopf, 1965.
This book includes a very interesting discussion
of the papyrus discoveries in Egypt. See especially
chapter 8, ‘‘Pearls from Rubbish Heaps: Grenfell
and Hunt.’’
Dillon, Matthew,Girls and Women in Classical Greek
Religion, Routledge, 2002.
This text offers an examination of the different
ways in which girls and women participated in
Greek religious life, especially with reference to
female participation in the cults that existed in
this period.
Lardinois, Andre ́,andLauraMcClure,eds.,Making Silence
Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society,
Princeton University Press, 2001.
This book is a collection of essays that examine
women’s literary creations and includes both
Sappho’s poems and letters written by other Hel-
lenistic women.
Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Maureen B. Fant, eds.,Women’s
Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
This book is a fascinating collection of legal,
medical, and social commentary, even including
tombstone epitaphs, that relates what earlyFragment 2