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Women Classical Scholars - Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Paperback)
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Women Classical Scholars - Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Paperback)
Series: Classical Presences
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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
over-ambitious, 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 case-studies into often overlooked key figures: some,
like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home
countries but have been neglected in previous, male-centred
accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the
mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates
them - their frustrations, achievements, and lasting records; in so
doing it provides the classical scholars of today, regardless of
gender, with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know
they had.
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