Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome.(Book Review)

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by I. M. Plant. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, viii, 268 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8061-3621-9; 0-8061-3622-7.

Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome presents works in translation by fifty-five classical female authors. This simple declaration of the book's content is at once accurate and yet incomplete, because while this volume is an anthology, the editor acknowledges the difficulty of establishing the identities of some authors, noting that pseudonyms may hide the work of male writers. Still, Plant contends the material contributes to understanding women's authorship because "if the…