Women Writing Latin: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era / Edition 1

by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415941839
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2002
Series:	Women Writers of the World
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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

Table 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;