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 overambitious, 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 casestudies into often overlooked key figures some, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in previous, malecentred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates them their frustrations, achievements, and lasting...

Binding: Paperback;484 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: DSBB; Weight: 736 g; Dimensions: 223 x 372 x 27

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