Women’s Voices?
2020 ◽
pp. 161-181
This chapter suggests that Christian public speakers (like other trained rhetors) saw a certain risky theatricality around using prosōpopoeia, especially for women. By comparing works on similar themes, one can see how Christians experiment with and adapt prosōpopoeia to various ends, and also how they mitigate its potentially inappropriateness in various ways: women ‘become male’ when they speak; authors stress the effect of their words, rather than reporting them; authors state what women did not say, rather than what they did (counterfactual prosōpopoeia). This chapter studies homilies on the so-called Maccabean martyrs, the forty martyrs of Sebaste, and some examples of philosophical women speaking in private.
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