List of women classicists

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

List

A Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad Margaret Alford

B Josephine Balmer Shadi Bartsch Lydia Baumbach Mary Beard, Cambridge don Marion Elizabeth Blake Mary Bridges-Adams Leslie Brubaker Anne Pippin Burnett Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge

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

D Anne Dacier, translator of Homer A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy Cynthia Damon Suzanne Dixon

E Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser Susanna Elm

F Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski Sarah Fielding Helene P. Foley Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer Olga Freidenberg

G Katharine Glasier Miriam Griffin

H Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer Elizabeth Hartley Elizabeth Hazelton Haight Edith Hamilton Mary Hamilton Susan Ashbrook Harvey Jane Harrison Gertrude Hirst Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius

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

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

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

N Andrea Nightingale

P Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye Yopie Prins Emily James Smith Putnam

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

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

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

V Luisa Sigea de Velasco Margaret Verrall Elizabeth Visser Renée Vivien

W Ute Wartenberg Simone Weil Mary Estelle White Marie Victoria Williams Emily Wilson Anja Wolkenhauer

Y Louise Youtie, papyrologist

Z Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta Froma Zeitlin

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