JOURNAL ARTICLE

ULTRA VERITATEM MULIEBRIS VIS: WOMEN CLASSICISTS AT AND BEYOND WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN THE DAWNING OF POST-BELLUM AMERICA.

  • Published In: Classical Journal, 2024, v. 119, n. 4. P. 439 1 of 3

  • Database: Art Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Hallett, Judith P. 3 of 3

Abstract

To contextualize the all-female American production of Plautus' Rudens at Washington University in St. Louis in 1884 by the university's Ladies' Literary Society, my discussion considers the topic of Plautus' comedy--freeborn Greeks threatened with enslavement--and the historical circumstances of its first staging in ca. 200 BCE; the historical circumstances surrounding the production, in a former slave state, less than two decades after the US Civil War; and, to illuminate the milieu in which the female students revised and performed Plautus' text, the lives and professional contributions of five prominent American women classicists educated between 1865 and 1917. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Classical Journal. 2024/06, Vol. 119, Issue 4, p439
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Biography
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0009-8353
  • DOI:10.1353/tcj.2024.a924862
  • Accession Number:176382765
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