Online resources
Texts
- Luisa Sigea / Syntra and selected letters. An student edition in the Dickinson College Commentaries series of Sigea’s narrative poem Syntra as well as a selection of four letter with vocabulary and notes by Ashley Roman Francese and an introduction to Sigea’s life and work by Christopher Francese. RWALT coverage: Sentences from Syntra and Epistula 16.
- Proba, Cento Vergilianus. An online edition of the poem in the Bibliotheca Augustana based on Schenkl’s 1887 CSEL volume. RWALT coverage: “Praefatio”.
Projects
- Lupercal. A collective of Latin teachers organized by Skye Shirley and Lauren Downey “dedicated to celebrating and increasing awareness of Latin, with a special focus on women and their stories.” Lupercal has since 2018 offered Latin courses at all levels with this focus.
- Project Nota. A crowdsourcing project “dedicated to drawing attention to the Latin letters and works of famous women by focusing on the digitization of texts, translating these texts into English, Spanish, and French, and increasing their overall accessibility.” Resources at Project Nota currently include transcriptions of works by Margareta van Godewijck and Martha Marchina, lesson plans for teaching scansion, and more.
Print resources
Texts
- The Experrecta Series: Women Latin Authors. This series founded by Thomas Hendrickson and published by Pixelia Publishing offers “open access student editions of Latin texts written by women.” The series so far includes volumes on The Passion of Perpetua and Isotta Nogarola’s Defense of Eve with future volumes planned for Willetrudis on Susanna and an anthology of women’s letters in Latin. The volumes are available to purchase in paperback or through download as open-access PDFs.
Select bibliography
Below is starter bibliography to help RWALT contributors familiarize themselves with the relevant scholarship on women authorship of Latin.
- Churchill, L.J., Brown, P.R., and Jeffrey, J.E., ed. 2002. Women Writing Latin: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
- Natoli, B., Pitts, A., and Hallett, J. 2022. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome. London: Routledge.
- Snyder, J.M. 1991. The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press.
- Stevenson, J. 2005. Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198185024.001.0001
Below is starter bibliography to help RWALT contributors familiarize themselves with the relevant scholarship on the representation of women in datasets and other computational resources.