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

List of contents

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;

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Phyllis R. Brown (Editor), Brown Phyllis R. (Editor), Laurie J. Churchill (Editor), Churchill Laurie J. (Editor), Jane E. Jeffrey (Editor), Jeffrey Jane E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2002
• EAN: 9780415941839
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94183-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: Women Writers of the World
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Anthologies (non-poetry), BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory