Anthology of Translated Texts

Diotima provides easy access to a wide variety of translated materials. We recommend that you browse the following different areas to see what's in them, and then if you still can't find something specific you want, try the search page.

• Anthology of translated primary sources (see list below)

• A selection from Women's Life in Greece and Rome by Mary Lefkowitz and Maureen Fant (abridged)

• Links to significant passages in the texts available from the Perseus Project

• Links to texts related to Biblical Studies

• Links to other relevant texts we've noticed on-line (see list below)

• Our request for new contributions to this anthology

• Brief biographies of our esteemed Contributors

Translated Primary Sources

• Greek texts
  • Hesiod, Works and Days 53-105, translated by Bruce MacLennan
  • The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translation and notes by Gregory Nagy
  • The Cologne Epode of Archilochos, translation and introduction by Guy Davenport
  • Alkman, Hymn to Artemis (Partheneion), two translations and an introduction by Guy Davenport
  • Greek Women Poets (Sappho, Korinna, Praxilla, Erinna, Nossis), translated by Diane Rayor
  • Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite, translated by Elizabeth Vandiver
  • Semonides 7, translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien
  • Artemisia in Herodotus, translated by Caroline L. Falkner
  • Sophocles' Antigone, Translated by Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett (with copious notes and an introduction covering translation issues, historical context, details of the dramatic festivals, etc.)
  • Sophocles' Trachiniae, translated by Robert M. Torrance
  • Euripides' Medea, translation and notes by Celia Luschnig
  • The Fragments of Neophron's Medea, translation and notes by Celia Luschnig
  • Hypotheses and Selected Scholia to Euripides' Medea, translation and notes by Celia Luschnig
  • Euripides' Alcestis, translation and notes by Celia Luschnig
  • Euripides, The Cretans, fr. 472e Kannicht = fr. 11 Page = fr. 82 Austin (from Perg. Berol. 13217, lost) translated by P. T. Rourke
  • Euripides, Erechtheus, fr. 50 Austin=fr 360 N, translated by Mary R. Lefkowitz
  • Lysias 1 - On the Murder of Eratosthenes, translated by Caroline L. Falkner
  • Cyclops (Theocritus 11), Translation by Diane Arnson Svarlien
  • Epigrams by Women from the Greek Anthology, translation and notes by Marilyn B. Skinner (Erinna, Anyte, Nossis)
  • New Hellenistic epigrams about women, translation and notes by Mary R. Lefkowitz
  • The Life of Hipparchia (Diogenes Laertius Book VI. 96-98): Translation and notes by Celia Luschnig
  • Different Desires: A Dialogue Comparing Male and Female Love, attributed to Lucian of Samosata, by Andrew Kallimachos
  • 45 Jokes from The Laughter Lover, Translation and notes by John T. Quinn
  • Aëtius on Clitoridectomy: Translation and notes by Mary R. Lefkowitz

• Latin Texts

  • Cornelia's Advice to Her Son Gaius Gracchus, translation and notes by Marilyn B. Skinner
  • Catullus 16, translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien
  • Catullus, Poem 64: The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Translated by Thomas Banks
  • Horace, Epodes 2, 3, 8, 11, 12, 14, and 15, Translated by John T. Quinn
  • Selections from Horace's Odes, Translated by Steven J. Willett (includes a brief biography and annotated bibliography of the poet, and metrical notes)
  • Propertius II.26A, translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien
  • Selections from Ovid's Amores, translated by John Svarlien and Diane Arnson Svarlien, with introduction and notes by William W. Batstone
  • Ovid on Sappho, Translated by Judith P. Hallett
  • Sulpicia, Translated by Lee T. Pearcy
  • The Other Sulpicia, translation and notes by John T. Quinn
  • Sulpicia's Complaint: On the State of the Nation and the Age of Domitian, translation and notes by James Lawrence Peter Butrica
  • Earinus the Eunuch: Martial (from Book 9) and Statius (Silvae 3.4), translation and notes by John T. Quinn
  • Selections from Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, translated by Neil W. Bernstein
  • Terentia's inscription on the pyramid of Cheops, translation and notes by John T. Quinn

• Egyptian texts (Note: for interpretation of the following documents, see William Ward's 1995 NEH lecture, "The Egyptian Economy and Non-royal Women: Their Status in Public Life")
  • Will of Prince Nikaure, son of King Khafre (ca. 2600 B.C.)
  • The Wills of Two Brothers and the Inheritance of One Brother's Wife (ca. 1900 B.C.)
  • Dispute over Property between a Mother and Daughter
  • Marriage Agreement between a Bridegroom and his Father-in-law
  • A Wife Wins a Dispute over Her Inheritance
  • A Woman Charges her Husband with Wife Abuse
  • A Father's Promise to his Daughter in Case of Divorce
  • A Woman Asks an Oracle to Settle a dispute over land
  • The Will of Amonkhau in Favor of His Second Wife (ca. 1100 B.C.)
  • A Daughter's Double Inheritance of Family Property (13th c. B.C.)

  • See also translated materials associated with courses taught by Janet Johnson

• Coptic Texts

  • The Thunder: Perfect Mind, Translated by Anne McGuire

See Also (at other sites):

• Entries from the Suda On Line with the keyword "women" selected

• The Internet Classics Archive

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook and Internet Medieval Sourcebook

• The Aseneth Home Page: Web site by Mark Goodacre devoted to Joseph and Aseneth, a tale told about the Biblical Patriarch Joseph and his Egyptian wife Aseneth, usually classed as part of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Features introduction, a translation, extensive hyperlinked bibliography and links.

• PBS Frontline: From Jesus to Christ. Collection of Primary Sources
  • First Corinthians (Paul's response to reports of sexual immorality and quarreling among the Corinthian Christians.)
  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla (This apocryphal narrative tells the story of the young Christian woman Thecla who spurns her fiance and family in order to follow the Apostle Paul.)
  • The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (The prison diary of a young woman who was martyred in Carthage in the year 202 or 203.)
  • Gospel of Mary (A gospel in which Mary Magdalene appears as an important disciple, singled out by Jesus for special teachings.)
  • Thunder, Perfect Mind (This mysterious poem, discovered among the gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi, is narrated by a female divine revealer.)

• Great Books Index: Homepage and Author List (links also to author biographies, notes, articles...)

• The Duke Papyrus Archive See especially:
  • The Search Page
  • From the World of the Papyri (essay)
  • Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule (essay)
  • Papyri concerning women and children in the collection
  • Papyri concerning slaves

• Links to many on-line versions of Greek (and some Roman) drama, provided by Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (includes many translated texts)

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter (trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White)
• Translations of Sappho from the Lesbian Poetry page
• Another Sappho page with translations by Myatt
• Apuleius, Apology ("The text at hand is the Apologia of Apuleius, the declamation by which he defended himself on a capital charge of at least magic and possibly murder, all apparently arising out of jealousies raised by his marriage to a distinguished older woman.")
• Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 3rd Century B.C.), Argonautica (Loeb Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912)
• Lampridius: "The Life of Heliogabalus"
• Athenaeus: Deipnosophists, Book XIII (Concerning Women)
• Illness of Maidens (8.466-70 Littre), translation adapted from N.Demand, Birth, Death and Motherhood, Johns Hopkins, 1994
• Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher (d. 415 C.E.)
  • The Life of Hypatia from The Suda
  • The Life of Hypatia by Socrates Scholasticus
  • The Life of Hypatia by John, Bishop of Nikiu
• Description by Tacitus of the Rebellion of Boudicca from Athena Review
• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation (edited by Alice-Mary Talbot; texts available in Adobe Acrobat PDF)

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