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Designed for college and university-level Latin courses, this reader features a range of Latin prose and poetic writings from the second century BCE through the second century CE that represent Roman women, both historical and fictional figures, and their distinctive activities and concerns, spotlighting their engagements with the written and spoken word. |
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Sheila Dickison has headed the Honors Program at the University of Florida since 1996. She held the position of associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences between 1989 and 1995. She is a past president of the American Classical League, a national organization of more than 4000 teachers of Classical Studies at all levels. A winner of the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award in 1997 and the Association of Academic Women's Achievement Award in 1999, Dickison is the author of more than 20 publications. Dickison holds a Ph.D. and master's degree in Latin and Greek from Bryn Mawr College and a bachelor's of arts degree in French and Latin from the University of Toronto. Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971, and has been a Mellon Fellow at Brandeis University and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women as well as the Blegen Visiting Scholar at Vassar College. Her major research specializations are Latin language and literature; gender, sexuality and the family in ancient Greek and Roman society; and the history of classical studies in the United States. Author of Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family (1984), Hallett is also co-editor of a special double issue of Classical World on Six North American Women Classicists (1996-1997), Roman Sexualities (1997), Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1997), Rome and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine Geffcken (2000), a special issue of Arethusa on The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (2001) and a special issue of Helios on Roman Mothers (2006). In addition, she has published over sixty articles, chapters in books, and translations, as well as speeches (ovationes) and songs in classical Latin. She also contributed the essays on Cornelia, Sulpicia the elegist, Martial’s Sulpicia, and the women of the Vindolanda tablets to Women Writing Latin, Volume I (2002). |
