One might assume optimistically that things have changed.
(In fact, a handful of women are buried among the “classicists” one can find here several studies of Victorian classical scholar Jane Harrison, including a fine one by Beard.)įor hundreds of years, the study of ancient Greece and Rome was largely the domain of elite white men and their bored sons. Like “female scientists” (42 volumes, as opposed to 303 for “scientists”) or “male nurses” (three to 377), “female classicists” is a category that has been assumed not to exist. Male classical scholars are represented by the heading “classicists” – which counts more than 200 volumes. Predictably, there are no entries for “male classicists”. Next up, alphabetically, is “female cleaning personnel”, which has a larger number of volumes devoted to it: six, with no duplicates, none by Beard.
I f you look up the subject heading “female classicists” in the large research library catalogue at the university where I teach, a grand total of five books pop up – of which two are separate editions of It’s a Don’s Life by Mary Beard.
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