Female authors in antiquity

You may have seen this post going around earlier this week, detailing an impressive list of female authors from antiquity:

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/08/01/an-impressive-list-of-female-authors-from-antiquity/

If, like a certain library trainee, you are intrigued by this and would like to find out more about classical women authors, here are some suggestions on where to start:

Greene (ed.) (2015), Women poets in ancient Greece and Rome
Class mark: 99A.1 GRE http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2970719~S7

Plant (ed.), (2004), Women writers of ancient Greece and Rome: an anthology
Class mark: 96.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2762892~S7

 

Balmer (1996), Classical women poets
Class mark: 96.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2430842~S7

Snyder (1989), The woman and the lyre: women writers in classical Greece and Rome
Class mark: 99A.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2468798~S7

Lefkowitz; Fant (2016), Women's life in Greece and Rome : a source book in translation (Fourth Edition) - especially Chapter 1 "Women's Voices - Female Poets"
Class mark: 152J.1 LEF http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3358357~S7

Latin:

Churchill; Brown; Jeffrey (eds.) (2002), Women writing Latin: from Roman antiquity to early modern Europe (3 vols.)
Class mark: 99G CHU  http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2771297~S7

Stevenson (2005), Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century
Class mark: 99J STE http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3119922~S7

Greek:

De Martino (2006), Poetesse greche
Class mark: 97.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2946720~S7

Rayor (1991), Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece
Class mark: 97.38 RAY http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2111174~S7

Philosophy:

Waithe (ed.) (1987), A history of women philosophers: Vol. 1. Ancient women philosophers, 600 B.C.-500 A.D.
Class mark: 123E WAI http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2489001~S7

Pomeroy (2013), Pythagorean women: their history and writings
Class mark: 123J POM http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3291485~S7

 

Letters:

Bagnall; Cribiore (2006), Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Class mark: 101H BAG http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2956012~S7