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Ladies' Greek : Victorian Translations of Tragedy. / Yopie Prins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : Brijwasi Book Distributors | : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi.Publication details: , New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2017.Description: xviii, 297p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780691141893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.809 PRI
Summary: In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken?
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In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken?

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