Women Writing Latin

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity.

Autorentext

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

Klappentext

This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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;