Sulpicia: Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome - Paperback
by Alison Keith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alison KeithSeries:Women in AntiquityPublish date:12/19/2025Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197606971ISBN-10:197606970UPC:9780197606971Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, AncientBook Topic:RomeProduct ID:SCZ9GV1CP3
Sulpicia: Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love affair in the same literary forms as Ovid, Propertius, and Tibullus. This study investigates Sulpicia's family background, the societal expectations...
Series: Women in Antiquity
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197606971ISBN-10:197606970UPC:9780197606971Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, AncientBook Topic:RomeProduct ID:SCZ9GV1CP3
Alison Keith is University Professor of Classics and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Virgil and Elegy, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy, Virgil, and Women in War and Antiquity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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