Women classical scholars : unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wyles, Rosie (Editor), Hall, Edith, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Table of 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 life 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.