The First Poets. Codex of Ancient Greek Women's Poetry

The phenomenon of women's poetic writing was first formed in Ancient Greece. Alexandrian scribes compiled the "canon of Greek poets": Cappho, Myptida, Telecilla, Ppakcilla, Kopinna, Epinna, Anita, Noccida and Moypo (poets VIIIIII c. to Xp.). But there were poets outside the canon: Hedila, Philina, Melinna, Julia Balbilla, Caecilius Trebulla, Damo, Cleopatra, Theosebia, and Eudocia Augusta (poets of the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD). These “canonical” and “non-canonical” poets were included in the “Codex of Ancient Greek Women’s Poetry” — the first complete edition of their poetic works translated into Ukrainian. Here, more than 350 texts (fragments) of women's poetry are arranged and commented on - from Sappho to Eudocia Augusta, from priestess to empress. The codex, as a collection of complete corpuses of texts by each poet, is formed from classical anthologies of ancient Greek poetry, which are significantly supplemented by new publications - textological, epigraphic, and papyrological.