Baron Blewett Hunnicutt Gallery, Wilson College

October 2021 - May 2022

An Invitation to Sail the Wine Dark Sea with Us

Diversity in the Ancient World

Voices from Rome: Eucharis and Caprasia

Voices from Greece: Telesilla and the Women of Corinth

Voices from Babylon: Receipts Can Talk

Ancient Houses: Research Projects completed by the students enrolled in CLS 215: Women in Antiquity during Summer 2021

Voices from the Greek Islands: Sappho

Voices from Egypt: Tasoucharion and Tetos

Voices from Carthage: Saints Perpetua and Felicity

Acknowledgements

This exhibition has been made possible by an Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities grant from the Society for Classical Studies and a Leadership Initiative Grant from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

An exhibit of this type also takes an enormous amount of effort to pull together, and I would like to thank the following for their invaluable assistance and support:

Amy Ensley, Annika Dowd, Michael Cornelius, Philip Lindsey, Adam Delmarcelle, Robert Dickson, Joshua Legg, Megan Mizanty, Ellen Ott, Ronda Ranalli, Trisha Groves, Adrianna Broome, Maricruz Cabrera, and the students of CLS 215 (Summer 2021) and LAT 101 (Fall 2021).

Many thanks also go to Wilson College, and to President Wesley Fugate and Dean Elissa Heil for their continued support of ancient world studies at Wilson College and the antiquities collection.

Bibliography

Akar, Philippe. "Woman and Electoral Politics at Pompeii", Clio. Women, Gender, History, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016, pp. 165-173.

Bagnall, Roger S. and Raffaella Cribiore. Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt. 300 BC – AD 800. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 2006.

Kennedy, Rebecca F., C. Sydnor Roy, and Max L. Goldman. Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation.  Indianapolis / Cambridge, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.: 2013. 96-97

MacLachlan, Bonnie. Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook. London, Bloomsbury: 2013.

Nemet-Negat, Karen Rhea. Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Westport, Connecticut; Greenwood Press: 1998.

Images

Images of Caprasia, Telesilla, and Aphrodite are courtesy of Brittany Beverung.