Special topics in Advanced Latin: Feminae Fortes. This course will look at women writing Latin starting with the earliest known woman writing Latin in the letter of Cornelia to the medieval letters of Eleanor of Acquitaine. We will examine the cultural history of Latin through the writings of women. Some of the women writers studied include Cornelia, Sulpicia, graffiti by women, epigraphy, Martial’s Sulpicia, Vindolanda Letters of Claudia Severa, Perpetua, Proba, and Egeria.