# List of women classicists

This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

## List
### A

* Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda
* Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad
* Margaret Alford

### B

* Josephine Balmer
* Shadi Bartsch
* Lydia Baumbach
* Mary Beard, Cambridge don
* Marion Elizabeth Blake
* Mary Bridges-Adams
* Leslie Brubaker
* Anne Pippin Burnett
* Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge

### C

* Averil Cameron, professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
* Anne Carson, poet and translator
* Elizabeth Carter
* Carmen Castillo García Spanish classical philologist
* Helen Chesnutt
* Elizabeth A. Clark, professor specialising in patristics
* Kathleen Coleman
* Joan Breton Connelly
* Kate Cooper

### D

* Anne Dacier, translator of Homer
* A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy
* Cynthia Damon
* Suzanne Dixon

### E

* Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
* Susanna Elm

### F

* Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
* Sarah Fielding
* Helene P. Foley
* Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer
* Olga Freidenberg

### G

* Katharine Glasier
* Miriam Griffin

### H

* Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats
* Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
* Elizabeth Hartley
* Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
* Edith Hamilton
* Mary Hamilton
* Susan Ashbrook Harvey
* Jane Harrison
* Gertrude Hirst
* Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius

### K

* Marion Kennedy, founder member of Newnham College
* Helen King
* Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B
* Elfriede Knauer
* Leslie Kurke
* Donna Carol Kurtz

### L

* Abby Leach, professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar
* Mary Lefkowitz
* Janet Lembke
* Barbara Levick
* Jane Lightfoot, professor of Greek literature at the University of Oxford
* Lady Jane Lumley, translator of Euripides

### M

* Grace Macurdy
* Bathsua Makin, learned lady
* Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, first female professor of Romance studies at the University of Lisbon
* Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
* Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
* Judith Mossman

### N

* Andrea Nightingale

### P

* Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye
* Yopie Prins
* Emily James Smith Putnam

### R

* Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
* Betty Radice, editor of Penguin Classics
* Sarah Parker Remond
* Christiane Reitz
* Emeline Hill Richardson
* Amy Richlin, authority on ancient sex
* Deborah Roberts
* Jacqueline de Romilly
* Ursula Rothe
* Ingrid D. Rowland
* Sarah Ruden, translator of the Aeneid
* Meike Rühl

### S

* Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female university student
* Ruth Scodel
* Enid Stacy
* Edith Sharpley
* Gertrude Smith
* Alicia Stallings, poet and translator
* Jenny Strauss Clay
* Anna Swanwick, promoter of higher education for women

### T

* Clotilde Tambroni*Birgitte Thott, translator of Seneca
* Dorothy Tarrant, first female UK professor of Greek
* Lily Ross Taylor
* Gail Trimble
* Susan Treggiari
* Bluma L. Trell (1903–1997), New York University

### V

* Luisa Sigea de Velasco
* Margaret Verrall
* Elizabeth Visser
* Renée Vivien

### W

* Ute Wartenberg
* Simone Weil
* Mary Estelle White
* Marie Victoria Williams
* Emily Wilson
* Anja Wolkenhauer

### Y

* Louise Youtie, papyrologist

### Z

* Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta
* Froma Zeitlin