| Edition |
First edition. |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Note |
The original versions of most of the papers were presented at an international conference entitled Women as Classical Scholars, held March 23-24, 2013 and run by the Dept. of Classics, King's College London--Cf. page 3. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-453) and index. |
| Contents |
Approaches to the fountain / Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles -- Learned women of the Renaissance and Early Modern period in Italy and England : the relevance of their scholarship / Carmel McCallum-Barry -- Hic sita Sigea est : satis hoc : Luisa Sigea and the role of D. Maria, Infanta of Portugal, in female scholarship / Sofia Frade -- Ménage's learned ladies : Anne Dacier (1647-1720) and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) / Rosie Wyles -- Anne Dacier (1681), Renée Vivien (1903) : or what does it mean for a woman to translate Sappho? / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- Intellectual pleasure and the woman translator in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Edith Hall -- Confined and exposed : Elizabeth Carter's classical translations / Jennifer Wallace -- This is not a chapter about Jane Harrison : teaching classics at Newnham College, 1882-1922 / Liz Gloyn -- Classical education and the advancement of African American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946) : redefining the classical scholar / Barbara F. McManus -- Greek (and Roman) ways and thoroughfares : the routing of Edith Hamilton's classical antiquity / Judith P. Hallett -- Margaret Alford (5 September 1868-29 May 1951) : the unknown pioneer / Roland Mayer -- Eli's daughters : female classics graduate students at Yale, 1892-1941 / Judith P. Hallett -- Ada Sara Adler : "the greatest woman philologist" of her time / Catharine P. Roth -- Olga Freidenberg : a creative mind incarcerated / Nina V. Braginskaya, translated from Russian by Zara M. Torlone, Alla Zeide, and Boris Maslov -- An unconventional classicist : the work and live of Kathleen Freeman / M. Eleanor Irwin -- A.M. Dale / Laetita Parker -- Betty Radice and the survival of classics / Rowena Fowler -- Simone Weil : receiving the Iliad / Barbara K. Gold -- Jacqueline de Romilly / Ruth Webb -- Keeping the fountain in flow / Rosie Wyles. |
| Subject |
Classical philology -- History -- Congresses.
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Women classicists -- History -- Congresses.
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Classicists -- History -- Congresses.
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| Alt Author |
Wyles, Rosie, editor.
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Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.
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King's College London. Department of Classics, organizer.
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| ISBN |
0198725205 |
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9780198725206 |
| Description |
xviii, 465 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Media type |
unmediated |
| Carrier type |
volume |
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