List of women classicists
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This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
List
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A
[edit ]- Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda [1]
- Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad [2]
- Margaret Alford [1] [3]
B
[edit ]- Josephine Balmer [2]
- Shadi Bartsch
- Lydia Baumbach
- Mary Beard, Cambridge don[2]
- Marion Elizabeth Blake
- Mary Bridges-Adams [4]
- Leslie Brubaker
- Anne Pippin Burnett
- Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge [5] [3]
C
[edit ]- Averil Cameron, professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
- Anne Carson, poet and translator[2]
- Elizabeth Carter [1] [3]
- Carmen Castillo García Spanish classical philologist
- Helen Chesnutt [1]
- Elizabeth A. Clark, professor specialising in patristics
- Kathleen Coleman
- Joan Breton Connelly
- Kate Cooper
D
[edit ]- Anne Dacier, translator of Homer [2]
- A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy [1]
- Cynthia Damon [2]
- Suzanne Dixon
E
[edit ]F
[edit ]- Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
- Sarah Fielding [1] [3]
- Helene P. Foley
- Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer[1]
- Olga Freidenberg [1] [3]
G
[edit ]H
[edit ]- Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats [5]
- Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
- Elizabeth Hartley
- Elizabeth Hazelton Haight [7]
- Edith Hamilton [7] [1] [3]
- Mary Hamilton [4]
- Susan Ashbrook Harvey
- Jane Harrison [2] [1] [3]
- Gertrude Hirst [7]
- Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius [2] [3]
K
[edit ]- Marion Kennedy, founder member of Newnham College
- Helen King
- Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B [1]
- Elfriede Knauer
- Leslie Kurke
- Donna Carol Kurtz
L
[edit ]- Abby Leach, professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar [7]
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Janet Lembke [2]
- Barbara Levick
- Jane Lightfoot, professor of Greek literature at the University of Oxford
- Lady Jane Lumley, translator of Euripides [2]
M
[edit ]- Grace Macurdy [1] [3]
- Bathsua Makin, learned lady[1]
- Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, first female professor of Romance studies at the University of Lisbon [1]
- Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
- Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
- Judith Mossman
N
[edit ]P
[edit ]R
[edit ]- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
- Betty Radice, editor of Penguin Classics [1] [3]
- Sarah Parker Remond [1]
- Christiane Reitz
- Emeline Hill Richardson
- Amy Richlin, authority on ancient sex[1]
- Deborah Roberts [2]
- Jacqueline de Romilly [1] [3]
- Ursula Rothe
- Ingrid D. Rowland
- Sarah Ruden, translator of the Aeneid [2]
- Meike Rühl
S
[edit ]- Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female university student[1]
- Ruth Scodel
- Enid Stacy [4]
- Edith Sharpley [1]
- Gertrude Smith [7]
- Alicia Stallings, poet and translator[2]
- Jenny Strauss Clay
- Anna Swanwick, promoter of higher education for women[1]
T
[edit ]- Clotilde Tambroni [1] *Birgitte Thott, translator of Seneca [1]
- Dorothy Tarrant, first female UK professor of Greek[1]
- Lily Ross Taylor
- Gail Trimble [6]
- Susan Treggiari
- Bluma L. Trell (1903–1997), New York University
V
[edit ]W
[edit ]- Ute Wartenberg
- Simone Weil [1]
- Mary Estelle White [7]
- Marie Victoria Williams
- Emily Wilson
- Anja Wolkenhauer
Y
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[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Rosie Wyles, Edith Hall, ed. (2016), Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198725206
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Emily Wilson (7 July 2017), "Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own", The Guardian
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Mary Beard (25 January 2017), "The struggles of clever women", Times Literary Supplement
- ^ a b c d Edith Hall (2015), "Classically Educated Women in the early Independent Labour Party" (PDF), Greek and Roman Classics and the British Struggle for Social Reform
- ^ a b Delamont, Sara (2002), Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites, Routledge, ISBN 9781134979752
- ^ a b "Celebrating Women in Classics", Classics at Oxford, University of Oxford, 2017, archived from the original on 2017年06月08日, retrieved 2017年07月21日
- ^ a b c d e f "Six Women Classicists", The Classical World, 90 (2/3), Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, November 1996, JSTOR i402496