Listing 1 - 5 of 5 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Women classicists --- Women classicists. --- Macurdy, Grace Harriet. --- United States.
Choose an application
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this volume twenty essays by international leaders in the field chronicle the lives of women from around the globe who have shaped the discipline over more than five hundred years. Arranged in broadly chronological order from the Italian, Iberian, and Portuguese Renaissance through to the Stalinist Soviet Union and occupied France, they synthesize illuminating overviews of the evolution of classical scholarship with incisive case-studies into often overlooked key figures: some, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in previous, male-centred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates them - their frustrations, achievements, and lasting records; in so doing it provides the classical scholars of today, regardless of gender, with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.
Classical philology --- Women classicists --- Classicists --- History --- Classical philology - History --- Women classicists - History --- Classicists - History --- Classical scholars --- Classics scholars --- Hellenists --- Latinists --- Philologists --- Scholars --- Women scholars
Choose an application
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting - ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will
Classical philology --- Women classicists --- Latin literature --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Latin philology --- Classicists --- Women scholars --- Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language
Choose an application
In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time-the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society-this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
Women classicists --- Classical education --- Classicism --- Upper class women --- Pseudo-classicism --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Civilization, Classical --- Education, Classical --- Education --- Education, Humanistic --- Humanism --- Humanities --- Women --- Classicists --- Women scholars --- History --- Intellectual life --- United States --- Civilization --- Classical influences.
Choose an application
Civilization, Classical --- Classical philology --- Feminism and education --- Women and literature --- Women classicists --- Women --- Study and teaching --- Sex differences. --- Sex differences --- Social aspects --- Education --- History --- Historiography. --- Schoolbooks - Didactic material --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Classicists --- Women scholars --- Philology, Classical --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek literature --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language --- Latin literature --- Latin philology --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- Study and teaching&delete& --- History&delete& --- Historiography
Listing 1 - 5 of 5 |
Sort by
|