Women Writing Latin : Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era

ISBN-13: 9780415941839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

L. Churchill; Phyllis R. Brown; Jane E. Jeffrey

Opis

This first volume of a three-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era, covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity. It provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works, including dramatic, poetic and devotional writing.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Women Writing Latin: An Introduction; Part 1 Roman Antiquity; Chapter 2 Women Writing in Rome and Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Judith P. Hallett; Chapter 3 An Introduction to Epigraphic Poetry, Jane Stevenson; Chapter 4 The Eleven Elegies of the Augustan Poet Sulpicia, Judith P. Hallett; Chapter 5 Women’s Graffiti from Pompeii, Elizabeth Woeckner; Chapter 6 The Fragment of Martial’s Sulpicia, Judith P. Hallett; Chapter 7 The Vindolanda Letters from Claudia Severa, Judith P. Hallett; Part 2 Late Antiquity and the Early Christian Era; Chapter 8 Vibia Perpetua: Mystic and Martyr, Judith Lynn Sebesta; Chapter 9 Faltonia Betitia Proba: A Virgilian Cento in Praise of Christ, Bernice M. Kaczynski; Chapter 10 Inscriptions on Fabia Aconia Paulina, Victoria Erhart; Chapter 11 Itinerarium Egeriae: A Pilgrim’s Journey, Victoria Erhart;

O autorze

Katharina M. Wilson, Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey