Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology

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Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was once produced by men, some essential literature written by women all the way through this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Graeco-Roman world that offers new English translations from the works of more than fifty women.

From Sappho, who lived in the seventh century B.C., to Eudocia and Egeria of the fifth century A.D., the texts presented here come from quite a lot of sources and span the fields of poetry and prose. Every creator is introduced with a critical review of what we know about the creator, her work, and its significance, in conjunction with a discussion of the texts that follow. A general introduction looks into the issue of the authenticity of a few texts attributed to women and places their literature into the wider literary and social contexts of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

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