Women Classical Scholars in and Since the Renaissance
Edith Hall

• Tuesday 13 June 2017, 6.30PM to 7.20pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• K/133, King's Manor, Exhibition Square (map)
• No wheelchair access

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Learn about the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Edith Hall, editor of Women Classical Scholars, explains how these women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions.  Nevertheless they continued to teach, edit, translate and analyse the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Some of the women, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in male-centred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. Come along and hear more about the women’s frustrations, achievements and lasting records.

About the speaker

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King’s College London. She regularly broadcasts on radio and has published more than 20 books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their reception. She is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize of the European Academy for her research and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens. Together with Rosie Wyles, she is the editor of Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly.

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Books will be available to buy from the Waterstones' stall at this event.

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