Description
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.
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;
