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## Abstract This book addresses women's relationship to culture between the 1st century BC and the 18th century by identifying women who wrote poetry in Latin. It also considers women's prose writing in Latin and their performance as Latin orators. The earlier chapters move forward through time up to the Renaissance, which is then treated on a country-by-country basis, followed by a second suite of chapters on the early modern era. It surveys the phenomenon of women who achieved a position in public life at a time when this was not open to women in general, and how the societies in which this occurred permitted this to happen. It is completed by a checklist of more than 300 women Latin poets, identifying where possible their names, place, milieu, and providing details of their work and a comprehensive finding guide listing manuscripts, editions, and translations.

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Author

Jane Stevenson

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198185024

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14