Nossis
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Native name | Νοσσίς |
Citizenship | Locrian |
Years active | c. 300 BC |
Nossis (Greek: Νοσσίς) was a Hellenistic Greek poet from Epizephyrian Locris in today's Calabria (Southern Italy).[1] She seems to have been active in the early third century BC, as she wrote an epitaph for the Hellenistic dramatist Rhinthon.[2] She primarily wrote epigrams for religious dedications and epitaphs.[3] Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho, whom she claims to rival.[4] She may have also been influenced by Erinna and Anyte.[5] Antipater of Thessalonica included her in his canon of nine female poets.[6]
Nossis is one of the best preserved Greek women poets, with twelve epigrams attributed to her preserved as part of the Greek Anthology, the majority of which are about women.[7] One of these poems (preserved as A. P. 5.170) is modelled after Sappho's fragment 16.[8] Meleager of Gadara mentions Nossis in his Garland, where he describes her as a love poet, though only one of her surviving epigrams is about love.[9]
Nossis states in her work that her mother was named Theuphila, the daughter of Cleouchas. In another epigram, she mentions that she had a daughter named Melinna.[10]
References
- ^ Barnard, Sylvia. "Hellenistic Women Poets". The Classical Journal, 73.3 (1978). p. 204.
- ^ Skinner, Marylin. "Homer's Mother". In Greene, Ellen (2005). Women's Voices in Ancient Greece and Rome. n. 11.
- ^ Bowman, Laurel. "The 'Women's Tradition' in Greek Poetry". Phoenix, 58.1 (2004). p. 16.
- ^ Snyder, Jane McIntosh. The Women and the Lyre. (1991. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale). See Anthologia Graeca 7:718.
- ^ Bowman, Laurel. "The 'Women's Tradition' in Greek Poetry". Phoenix, 58.1 (2004). p. 20.
- ^ Fernandez Robbio, Matías S. (2014) «Musas y escritoras: el primer canon de la literatura femenina de la Grecia antigua (AP IX 26)». Praesentia, v. 15, 2014, pp. 1-9. ISSN (en línea): 1316-1857. (online)
- ^ Barnard, Sylvia. "Hellenistic Women Poets". The Classical Journal, 73.3 (1978). p. 210.
- ^ Barnard, Sylvia. "Hellenistic Women Poets". The Classical Journal, 73.3 (1978). p. 211.
- ^ Plant, I.M. Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (2004). p.64.
- ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: Murray (1849), "Nossis"
Further reading
- Skinner, Marilyn B. "Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis". in Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin and Auranger, Lisa. Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2002.
- Bowman, L. 1998. “Nossis, Sappho and Hellenistic Poetry.” Ramus 27.1: 39–59.
- Gigante, M. 1974. “Nosside.” PP 29: 22–39.
- Gow, A. S. F., and D. L. Page, eds. 1965. The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams. 2 vols. Cambridge.
- Gutzwiller, K. J. 1998. Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London.
- Skinner, M. B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis.” Arethusa 22: 5–18.
- Skinner, M. B. 1991. “Nossis Thêlyglôssos: The Private Text and the Public Book.” In S. B. Pomeroy, ed., Women’s History and Ancient History. Chapel Hill and London: 20–47.
- Skinner, M. B. 2001. “Ladies’ Day at the Art Institute: Theocritus, Herodas, and the Gendered Gaze.” In A. Lardinois and L. McClure, eds., Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society. Princeton, N.J., 201–22.
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