Optima tu proprii nominis auctor: The semantics of female authorship in ancient Rome, from Sulpicia to Proba

This paper explores evidence for female authorship terminology in extant poetic texts written in Latin by women. It begins by first considering male authorship in Latin literature, before moving on to three case studies of women’s writing: an elegy by Sulpicia, an anonymous graffito from Pompe...

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Main Author: Emily Hauser
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Université de Lille 2016-01-01
Series:Eugesta
Online Access:http://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/index.php?id=685