Women Classical Scholars
Subtitle: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780198725206
Subjects: Classical literature, history and criticism; Women pioneers; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries
Description: This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesising incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.