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"Hedyle - Extant Athenian Woman Poet"

By N.S. Gill, About.com

Definition: Hedyle is significant because she is the only Athenian woman poet whose work is extant. Hedyle lived in Athens in the third century B.C., and wrote a poem about Scylla.

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