Sarah b pomeroy biography

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The Lady Joan Reid Children’s Author in Residence, Professor Sarah B. Pomeroy recently sat down with our Founding Director, Márcia Balisciano, via the internet, to discuss her upcoming book Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer.

Professor Pomeroy, a distinguished Professor emeritus of Classics and History at the City University of New York, is an accomplished author of numerous books, articles, and reviews on the topic of Women in Antiquity, including the classic Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. She has won many awards, including the Ford Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship. Her pioneering work has been instrumental in our understanding of women in history.

In this short conversation, Professor Pomeroy spoke extensively about her research into Benjamin Franklin’s love of swimming and how he swam extensively in the Thames and the Seine during his time in London and Paris respectively. Professor Pomeroy also spoke on some of the challenges she faced as a w

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Sarah B. Pomeroy

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Image credit: Sarah Pomeroy in the 1980s via Society for Classical Studies

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Think about the stories of the Greeks and Romans. Sure, women might be in the story in various places; they might even motivate some of the action in them. But overall the women are not doing much of the acting. They might be indispensable, but they certainly can be marginalized.

Sarah Pomeroy led the way in Classics with the first real history of women in the Classical world with her 1975 Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. In this edition the author provides show more an updated preface but otherwise the work remains substantially the same.

Pomeroy began with the theology of the Classical world and how the Greeks and Romans imagined their gods and goddesses. She then considered what can be known of Greek women in the Bronze Age and in Homeric epic (~2500-1000 BCE), the “dark age” and archaic period (1000-500 BCE), women in Athens, public and private from 500-