Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women ppoets of angient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. The volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 B.C.E) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome.