Fr. 31.90

Sulpicia - Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 15.10.2025

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This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love affair in the same literary forms as Ovid, Propertius, and Tibullus. This study investigates Sulpicia's family background, the societal expectations for a woman of her aristocratic rank, and the literary ferment that swept Rome in her day and to which she contributed.

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  • 23/06/2025



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Alison Keith is University Professor of Classics and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Virgil and Elegy, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy, Virgil, and Women in War and Antiquity.


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