Brian P. Sowers is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
In Her Own Words complements existing historical and generic
studies of Eudocia's poetry and forges new territory in situating
her corpus as a whole in context, synthesizing style and themes
across her works, and offering the first English translation of her
Martyrdom of Cyprian...Eudocia emerges as an impressive
rhetor and diplomat...The absence of women's writing in late
antiquity is more keenly felt when even a small selection can
elicit such depth about one of the women whose writing we do have.
-- Amy Hughes * Journal of Early Christian Studies *
Successfully investigates the self-image that Eudocia presented
throughout her works, which complements well the portrait that has
thus far been reconstructed on the basis of historical
evidence...An indispensable addition to the corpus of scholarship
on this topic. -- Hannelore Segers * New England Classical Journal
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[An] excellent study of Eudocia's poetry...In continuing the
process of recovering Eudocia's actual voice, [Sowers] offers a
valuable addition to our understanding of intellectual life in late
antiquity by providing a convincing portrait of the learning and
talents of an exceptional woman. -- David Potter * Classical
Outlook *
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