Sulpicia

Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome

Alison Keith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2026
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760697-1 (ISBN)

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This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love affair in the same literary forms as Ovid, Propertius, and Tibullus. This study investigates Sulpicia's family background, the societal expectations for a woman of her aristocratic rank, and the literary ferment that swept Rome in her day and to which she contributed.

In Sulpicia: Life, Love, and Literature in Ancient Rome, Alison Keith takes the discovery of Sulpicia's poetry as a point of departure, before turning to in-depth exploration of her aristocratic family background and her literary achievement in the heyday of Latin love poetry. She also probes the difficulty many male critics have had in believing that an aristocratic Roman woman could write poetry about love and sex.

Alison Keith is University Professor of Classics and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Virgil and Elegy, Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy, Virgil, and Women in War and Antiquity.

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Genealogical Tables
Prologue

Part I - Texts
1. Discovery

Part II - Genealogies
2. Daughter of the Patriciate
3. Niece of the Augustan Aristocracy
4. An Elite Upbringing

Part III - Literary Contexts
5. Pretexts
6. Intertexts
7. Rescripts
8. Postscript

Appendix - The Sulpicia Cycle (Latin/English)
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Women in Antiquity
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	3 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-760697-0 / 0197606970
ISBN-13	978-0-19-760697-1 / 9780197606971
Zustand	Neuware