List of women classicists

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This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

## List

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### A

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* Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda[1]
* Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad[2]
* Margaret Alford[1][3]

### B

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* Josephine Balmer[2]
* Shadi Bartsch
* Lydia Baumbach
* Mary Beard, Cambridge don[2]
* Marion Elizabeth Blake
* Mary Bridges-Adams[4]
* Leslie Brubaker
* Anne Pippin Burnett
* Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge[5][3]

### C

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* Averil Cameron, professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
* Anne Carson, poet and translator[2]
* Elizabeth Carter[1][3]
* Carmen Castillo García Spanish classical philologist
* Helen Chesnutt[1]
* Elizabeth A. Clark, professor specialising in patristics
* Kathleen Coleman
* Joan Breton Connelly
* Kate Cooper

### D

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* Anne Dacier, translator of Homer[2]
* A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy[1]
* Cynthia Damon[2]
* Suzanne Dixon

### E

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* Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
* Susanna Elm

### F

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* Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
* Sarah Fielding[1][3]
* Helene P. Foley
* Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer[1]
* Olga Freidenberg[1][3]

### G

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* Katharine Glasier[4]
* Miriam Griffin[6]

### H

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* Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats[5]
* Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
* Elizabeth Hartley
* Elizabeth Hazelton Haight[7]
* Edith Hamilton[7][1][3]
* Mary Hamilton[4]
* Susan Ashbrook Harvey
* Jane Harrison[2][1][3]
* Gertrude Hirst[7]
* Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius[2][3]

### K

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* Marion Kennedy, founder member of Newnham College
* Helen King
* Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B[1]
* Elfriede Knauer
* Leslie Kurke
* Donna Carol Kurtz

### L

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* Abby Leach, professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar[7]
* Mary Lefkowitz
* Janet Lembke[2]
* Barbara Levick
* Jane Lightfoot, professor of Greek literature at the University of Oxford
* Lady Jane Lumley, translator of Euripides[2]

### M

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* Grace Macurdy[1][3]
* Bathsua Makin, learned lady[1]
* Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, first female professor of Romance studies at the University of Lisbon[1]
* Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
* Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
* Judith Mossman

### N

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* Andrea Nightingale

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* Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye
* Yopie Prins[2]
* Emily James Smith Putnam

### R

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* Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
* Betty Radice, editor of Penguin Classics[1][3]
* Sarah Parker Remond[1]
* Christiane Reitz
* Emeline Hill Richardson
* Amy Richlin, authority on ancient sex[1]
* Deborah Roberts[2]
* Jacqueline de Romilly[1][3]
* Ursula Rothe
* Ingrid D. Rowland
* Sarah Ruden, translator of the Aeneid[2]
* Meike Rühl

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* Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female university student[1]
* Ruth Scodel
* Enid Stacy[4]
* Edith Sharpley[1]
* Gertrude Smith[7]
* Alicia Stallings, poet and translator[2]
* Jenny Strauss Clay
* Anna Swanwick, promoter of higher education for women[1]

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* Clotilde Tambroni[1]*Birgitte Thott, translator of Seneca[1]
* Dorothy Tarrant, first female UK professor of Greek[1]
* Lily Ross Taylor
* Gail Trimble[6]
* Susan Treggiari
* Bluma L. Trell (1903–1997), New York University

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* Luisa Sigea de Velasco[1]
* Margaret Verrall[1]
* Elizabeth Visser
* Renée Vivien[1][3]

### W

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* Ute Wartenberg
* Simone Weil[1]
* Mary Estelle White[7]
* Marie Victoria Williams
* Emily Wilson
* Anja Wolkenhauer

### Y

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* Louise Youtie, papyrologist[1]

### Z

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* Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta
* Froma Zeitlin

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Rosie Wyles, Edith Hall, ed. (2016), Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198725206
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Emily Wilson (7 July 2017), "Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own", The Guardian
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Mary Beard (25 January 2017), "The struggles of clever women", Times Literary Supplement
4. ^ a b c d Edith Hall (2015), "Classically Educated Women in the early Independent Labour Party" (PDF), Greek and Roman Classics and the British Struggle for Social Reform
5. ^ a b Delamont, Sara (2002), Knowledgeable Women: Structuralism and the Reproduction of Elites, Routledge, ISBN 9781134979752
6. ^ a b "Celebrating Women in Classics", Classics at Oxford, University of Oxford, 2017, archived from the original on 2017-06-08, retrieved 2017-07-21
7. ^ a b c d e f "Six Women Classicists", The Classical World, 90 (2/3), Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, November 1996, JSTOR i402496