Ralph M. Rosen is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He has published extensively on archaic and classical Greek poetry, with particular focus on comic and satirical genres.Ineke Sluiter is Professor of Greek in the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on ancient ideas on language and literature, and their cultural impact.

“This book is, among other things, a sign of how far gender studies in classics have come in a very short period. I recommend it.” – Kirk Ormand, in: Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada (2005)