List of women classicists



This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome.

A

 * Ada Adler, produced the definitive edition of the huge Byzantine lexicon, Suda
 * Caroline Alexander, translator of the Iliad
 * Margaret Alford

B

 * Josephine Balmer
 * Shadi Bartsch
 * Lydia Baumbach
 * Mary Beard, Cambridge don
 * Marion Elizabeth Blake
 * Mary Bridges-Adams
 * Leslie Brubaker
 * Anne Pippin Burnett
 * Agnata Butler, first lady of Cambridge

C

 * Averil Cameron, professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Warden of Keble College, Oxford
 * Anne Carson, poet and translator
 * Elizabeth Carter
 * Carmen Castillo García Spanish classical philologist
 * Helen Chesnutt
 * Elizabeth A. Clark, professor specialising in patristics
 * Kathleen Coleman
 * Joan Breton Connelly
 * Kate Cooper

D

 * Anne Dacier, translator of Homer
 * A. M. Dale, authority on Greek tragedy
 * Cynthia Damon
 * Suzanne Dixon

E

 * Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
 * Susanna Elm

F

 * Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
 * Sarah Fielding
 * Helene P. Foley
 * Kathleen Freeman, author and lecturer
 * Olga Freidenberg

G

 * Katharine Glasier
 * Miriam Griffin

H

 * Barbara Hammond, the first woman to take a double-first in Classical Moderations and Greats
 * Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
 * Elizabeth Hartley
 * Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
 * Edith Hamilton
 * Mary Hamilton
 * Susan Ashbrook Harvey
 * Jane Harrison
 * Gertrude Hirst
 * Lucy Hutchinson, translator of Lucretius

K

 * Marion Kennedy, founder member of Newnham College
 * Helen King
 * Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B
 * Elfriede Knauer
 * Leslie Kurke
 * Donna Carol Kurtz

L

 * Abby Leach, professor of Greek and Latin at Vassar
 * Mary Lefkowitz
 * Janet Lembke
 * Barbara Levick
 * Jane Lightfoot, professor of Greek literature at the University of Oxford
 * Lady Jane Lumley, translator of Euripides

M

 * Grace Macurdy
 * Bathsua Makin, learned lady
 * Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, first female professor of Romance studies at the University of Lisbon
 * Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
 * Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
 * Judith Mossman

N

 * Andrea Nightingale

P

 * Germaine Perrin de la Boullaye
 * Yopie Prins
 * Emily James Smith Putnam

R

 * Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
 * Betty Radice, editor of Penguin Classics
 * Sarah Parker Remond
 * Christiane Reitz
 * Emeline Hill Richardson
 * Amy Richlin, authority on ancient sex
 * Deborah Roberts
 * Jacqueline de Romilly
 * Ursula Rothe
 * Ingrid D. Rowland
 * Sarah Ruden, translator of the Aeneid
 * Meike Rühl

S

 * Anna Maria van Schurman, the first female university student
 * Ruth Scodel
 * Enid Stacy
 * Edith Sharpley
 * Gertrude Smith
 * Alicia Stallings, poet and translator
 * Jenny Strauss Clay
 * Anna Swanwick, promoter of higher education for women

T

 * Clotilde Tambroni *Birgitte Thott, translator of Seneca
 * Dorothy Tarrant, first female UK professor of Greek
 * Lily Ross Taylor
 * Gail Trimble
 * Susan Treggiari
 * Bluma L. Trell (1903–1997), New York University

V

 * Luisa Sigea de Velasco
 * Margaret Verrall
 * Elizabeth Visser
 * Renée Vivien

W

 * Ute Wartenberg
 * Simone Weil
 * Mary Estelle White
 * Marie Victoria Williams
 * Emily Wilson
 * Anja Wolkenhauer

Y

 * Louise Youtie, papyrologist

Z

 * Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta
 * Froma Zeitlin