Women Creating Classics

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction (Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor, University of Exeter, UK)

Ancient and Early Modern
1. Women Creating History (Ian Plant, Macquarie University, Australia)
2. Classical Credentials: Womenâs Intellectual and Sexual Licence in Sixteenth-Century France (Emma Herdman, St. Andrews University, UK)
3. Lucrezia Marinella and Ancient Rhetoric: A Womanâs Approach to Eloquence, Persuasion, and Metaphor in the Late Italian Renaissance (Francesca DâAlessandro Behr, University of Houston, USA)

Modern
4. âAll the Allurements of Beauty and Eloquenceâ: Aspasia of Miletus and the Intellectual Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Isobel Hurst, Goldsmiths University, UK)
5. A Night in Ancient Rome: Ren©e Vivienâs Scholarly and Literary Re-Creation of the Cult of Bona Dea (Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Lille University, France)
6. Sofiia Parnokâs Sapphic Cycle Roses of Pieria: Translation and Commentary (Georgina Barker, University College London, UK)
7. âRebels Against the Tyranny of Menâ: Women Performing Greek Comedy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Mara Gold, University of Oxford, UK)
8. âSaved with Ablatives and Declensions in the Toilet stallâ: Classical Learning and the Poetry of Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) (Judith Hallett, University of Maryland, USA)
9. âTo read, to see, to spin, and to turnâ: Reintroducing Barbara K¶hlerâs Elektras (Lena Grimm, University of Michigan, USA)

Contemporary
10. How to Be the Best: Madeline Miller's Patroclus (Jessica Lawrence, University of Cambridge, UK)
11. Voices of Recovery in Josephine Balmerâs The Paths of Survival (Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
12. Wrongful Conviction: Odyssean Possibilities in Tayari Jonesâ An American Marriage (Justine McConnell, Kingâs College London, UK)
13. Animating Disability Arts and Ovidian Metamorphosis in Kinetic Lightâs DESCENT (Amanda Kubic, The University of Michigan, USA)
14. Passim Clouds: Helen, Marilyn and Norma Jean Baker of Troy (Eugenia Nicolaci, University of Bristol, UK)
15. Eating the Classics: Culinary rewritings of classical myths in poems by Lena Yau (Katie Brown, University of Exeter, UK)
16. The Ovidian influence on Zadie Smith (Tracey Walters, Stony Brook University, USA)
17. A Contemporary Medea: Alice Diop's Saint Omer (2022) (Fiona Cox, University of Exeter, UK)

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