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[edit]
A[edit]
- Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda[1]
- Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad[2]
- Margaret Alford[1][3]
B[edit]
- Josephine Balmer[2]
- Shadi Bartsch
- Lydia Baumbach
- Mary Beard, Cambridge don[2]
- Marion Elizabeth Blake
- Mary Bridges-Adams[4]
- Leslie Brubaker
- Anne Pippin Burnett
- Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge[5][3]
C[edit]
- Averil Cameron, professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
- Anne Carson, poet and translator[2]
- Elizabeth Carter[1][3]
- Carmen Castillo García Spanish classical philologist
- Helen Chesnutt[1]
- Elizabeth A. Clark, professor specialising in patristics
- Kathleen Coleman
- Joan Breton Connelly
- Kate Cooper
D[edit]
- Anne Dacier, translator of Homer[2]
- A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy[1]
- Cynthia Damon[2]
- Suzanne Dixon
E[edit]
F[edit]
- Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
- Sarah Fielding[1][3]
- Helene P. Foley
- Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer[1]
- Olga Freidenberg[1][3]
G[edit]
H[edit]
- Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats[5]
- Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
- Elizabeth Hartley
- Elizabeth Hazelton Haight[7]
- Edith Hamilton[7][1][3]
- Mary Hamilton[4]
- Susan Ashbrook Harvey
- Jane Harrison[2][1][3]
- Gertrude Hirst[7]
- Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius[2][3]
K[edit]
- Marion Kennedy, founder member of Newnham College
- Helen King
- Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B[1]
- Elfriede Knauer
- Leslie Kurke
- Donna Carol Kurtz
L[edit]
- Abby Leach, professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar[7]
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Janet Lembke[2]
- Barbara Levick
- Jane Lightfoot, professor of Greek literature at the University of Oxford
- Lady Jane Lumley, translator of Euripides[2]
M[edit]
- Grace Macurdy[1][3]
- Bathsua Makin, learned lady[1]
- Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, first female professor of Romance studies at the University of Lisbon[1]
- Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
- Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
- Judith Mossman
N[edit]
P[edit]
R[edit]
- Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
- Betty Radice, editor of Penguin Classics[1][3]
- Sarah Parker Remond[1]
- Christiane Reitz
- Emeline Hill Richardson
- Amy Richlin, authority on ancient sex[1]
- Deborah Roberts[2]
- Jacqueline de Romilly[1][3]
- Ursula Rothe
- Ingrid D. Rowland
- Sarah Ruden, translator of the Aeneid[2]
- Meike Rühl
S[edit]
- Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female university student[1]
- Ruth Scodel
- Enid Stacy[4]
- Edith Sharpley[1]
- Gertrude Smith[7]
- Alicia Stallings, poet and translator[2]
- Jenny Strauss Clay
- Anna Swanwick, promoter of higher education for women[1]
T[edit]
- Clotilde Tambroni[1]*Birgitte Thott, translator of Seneca[1]
- Dorothy Tarrant, first female UK professor of Greek[1]
- Lily Ross Taylor
- Gail Trimble[6]
- Susan Treggiari
- Bluma L. Trell (1903–1997), New York University
V[edit]
W[edit]
- Ute Wartenberg
- Simone Weil[1]
- Mary Estelle White[7]
- Marie Victoria Williams
- Emily Wilson
- Anja Wolkenhauer
Y[edit]
Z[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Rosie Wyles, Edith Hall, ed. (2016), Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198725206
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Emily Wilson (7 July 2017), "Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own", The Guardian
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Mary Beard (25 January 2017), "The struggles of clever women", Times Literary Supplement
- ^ a b c d Edith Hall (2015), "Classically Educated Women in the early Independent Labour Party" (PDF), Greek and Roman Classics and the British Struggle for Social Reform
- ^ a b Delamont, Sara (2002), Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites, Routledge, ISBN 9781134979752
- ^ a b "Celebrating Women in Classics", Classics at Oxford, University of Oxford, 2017, archived from the original on 2017-06-08, retrieved 2017-07-21
- ^ a b c d e f "Six Women Classicists", The Classical World, 90 (2/3), Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, November 1996, JSTOR i402496