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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 A. Ada ...
Annie Dunman Hunt was born in Worcester on January 3, 1893, to George Henry Hunt, a watchmaker and jeweller, and his wife Elizabeth Ann.In her childhood, she attended Stoneycroft School, a girls' boarding school in Southport, and in 1911, Hunt was accepted to University of Reading to read classics.
Bonfante was born in Naples, the daughter of professor Giuliano Bonfante. [2] She grew up in Princeton, NJ. Bonfante would go on to study fine arts and classics at Barnard College, earning her B.A. in 1954; she completed her M.A. in classics from the University of Cincinnati in 1957 and her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology at Columbia University in 1966. [3]
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. [1] The book was one of the first English works on women's history in any period. [2]
Ann Wheeler Ashmead (née Harnwell; born 7 October 7, 1929) is an American archaeologist who has co-authored comprehensive catalogues [1] with archaeologist and Etruscologist Kyle Meredith Phillips, Jr. [2] about the Greek Vase Painting collections of Bryn Mawr College (1971) and the Rhode Island School of Design (1976).
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, [1] is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD [note 1] comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
Women were able to take part in almost every religious festival in classical Athens, but some significant festivals were restricted only to women. [126] The most important women's festival was the Thesmophoria , a fertility rite for Demeter which was observed by married noblewomen.
The legendary rape of the Sabine women is the subject of two oil paintings by Nicolas Poussin. [a] The first version was painted in Rome about 1634 or 1635 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, catalogued as The Abduction of the Sabine Women. [1]