Nossis
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- Gender
- female
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- Epizephyrian Locris
- Place of death
- Epizephyrian Locris
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- Francesco jerace, nosside di locri, 1920.jpg
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thumb|right|Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace
Nossis (, ) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia. Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis was influenced by and claimed to rival Sappho. Eleven or twelve of her epigrams, mostly religious dedications and epitaphs, survive in the Greek Anthology. Her work is known for its focus on women, their lives and world; modern scholars such as Marilyn B. Skinner have argued that Nossis consciously positioned herself as part of a female literary tradition, in contrast to that of male poets such as Pindar.
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3rd-century BC Greek poets3rd-century BC Greek women3rd-century BC women writers4th-century BC Greek poets4th-century BC Greek women4th-century BC women writersAncient Greek women poetsDoric Greek poetsEpigrammatists of the Greek AnthologyEpizephyrian LocriansPoets of Magna GraeciaWriters from Calabria