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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Caecilia Trebulla

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20030

Blurb:

(fl. c. AD 130)

The statue of Memnon near Thebes in Egypt was famous in antiquity for the noise made by the stone as it was warmed by the morning sun.1 Caecilia Trebulla composed three epigrams on her visit to the statue of Memnon, proudly placing her name above her verses.2 She is otherwise unknown.

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