By Jane Stevenson
Girls Latin Poets addresses women's dating to tradition among the 1st century B.C. and the eighteenth century A.D. through learning women's poetry in Latin. established solely on unique archival learn in twelve nations, Stevenson recovers a facet of background usually deemed to not exist: ladies who accomplished public reputation of their personal time, occasionally to a startling quantity. providing, frequently for the 1st time, the paintings of greater than 300 girls Latin poets, all translated and integrated in a complete discovering advisor, girls Latin Poets considerably revises acquired opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, ?lite tradition. The sheer variety of woman Latin poets would require women's historians to fully reassess the concept all ladies had "no entry to schooling" earlier than the 19th century.
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Dalle femine alle donne? Med: O, o`, gran differenza, perche la femine sono d’animo vilissimo, e dedito al vitio, e le Donne sono d’animo generoso, invitto, intrepido, costante, virtuoso, e pio, lontane d’ogni atto indegno, e capriccio humane, ma` prudente, e saggio, conforme alla giustitia divina e del mondo . . ’ 37 I leave these terms untranslated since, while ‘femina’ is unproblematic, ‘donna’ does not occupy the same semantic space as English ‘lady’, ‘mistress’, or ‘noblewoman’, or any other single word.
25). 9 A single wistful hexameter attributed to ‘a Vestal Virgin’ is quoted by Seneca, Controversiae 6. ’ This may be fictitious, but Seneca implies that there is nothing odd in the idea that a Vestal Virgin might be able to write verse. ’11 These tropes, similarity up to a point, but a degree of difference which is focused on public speaking, will resurface again and again in Renaissance writings on women. What keeps us from seeing Augustan poetry as a game for both sexes is the problem of texts and transmission.
16 Cornelia is endlessly referred to by later women Latinists and their apologists, because she was a woman of achievement, but this achievement (principally the education of her sons) was entirely in the context of familial rather than personal ambition. She was held up to the admiration of posterity as a model matron because, in an often-told anecdote, she took the pride in her sons that lesser women took in their jewels. The first Latin woman described as actually having written poetry is Sempronia, who flourished around 60 bc: ‘[Sempronia was] well educated in Greek and Latin literature .
