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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Terentia

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20032

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(lived about 1st–2nd centuries AD)

Terentia was a Roman visitor to Egypt whose only known work is a poem which she composed as an epitaph for her brother, Decimus Terentius Gentianus, and had inscribed on the pyramid of Cheops.

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