| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 465 pages) : illustrations |
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Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Cover; CLASSICAL PRESENCES; Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Illustrations; Tables; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction: Approaches to the Fountain; Appendix; 2: Learned Women of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period in Italy and England: The Relevance of their Scholarship; 3: Hic sita Sigea est: satis hoc: Luisa Sigea and the Role of D. Maria, Infanta of Portugal, in Female Scholarship |
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4: Ménageś Learned Ladies: Anne Dacier (1647-1720) and Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)5: Anne Dacier (1681), Renée Vivien (1903): Or What Does it Mean for a Woman to Translate Sappho?; Anne Le Fèvre; HYMNE A VENUS; A SON AMIE; Renée Vivien; 6: Intellectual Pleasure and the Woman Translator in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century England; Consequential Arguments about Women's Education; Pleasure as a Motive for Female Study; Lucy Hutchinson; Sarah Fielding; Conclusion; 7: Confined and Exposed: Elizabeth Carterś Classical Translations; Exposure in the Gentlemanś Magazine |
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Confinement in EpictetusReception; 8: This is Not a ChapterAbout Jane Harrison: Teaching Classics at Newnham College, 1882-1922; Beginnings-Margaret Merrifield and Edith Sharpley-1882-1900; Professionalizing-Jane Harrison and Rachel White-1900-1909; Consolidating-Louise Matthaei-1909-1916; Disruption-World War One and beyond-1916-1922; Conclusion; 9: Classical Education and the Advancement of African American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 10: Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946): Redefining the Classical Scholar; Appendix: Barbara F. McManus-a Biography |
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11: Greek (and Roman) Ways and Thoroughfares: The Routing of Edith Hamiltonś Classical AntiquitySituating Edith Hamilton: Three Problematic Words of Identification; Contextualizing Edith Hamilton: Expertise and Audience; 12: Margaret Alford (5 September 1868-29 May 1951): The Unknown Pioneer; Appendix of Later Accolades for Alford; 13: Eliś Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 1892-1941; 14: Ada Sara Adler: ̀The Greatest Woman Philologist ́of Her Time; 15: Olga Freidenberg: A Creative Mind Incarcerated; 16: An Unconventional Classicist: The Work and Life of Kathleen Freeman |
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Freeman's early life and schoolingFreeman as an undergraduate; Freeman as Lecturer in Greek from 1919 to the beginning of WWII; The invention of Mary Fitt; Her friendship with Liliane Clopet; Writing and teaching during WWII; Publications 1946-47; A new direction 1948-54; The Philosophical Society of England and God, Man and State; Freeman and the status of women; Paths of Justice; Freemanś reputation; Freeman as a human being; Epilogue: TÓther Miss Austen; Conclusion; 17: A.M. Dale; 18: Betty Radice and the Survival of Classics; 19: Simone Weil: Receiving the Iliad |
| Summary |
This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-453) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical philology -- History
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Women classicists -- History
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Classicists -- History
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
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Classical philology
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Classicists
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Women classicists
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wyles, Rosie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191792571 |
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0191792578 |
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9780191038297 |
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0191038296 |
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