![]() It’s well footnoted (always a plus, even if I don’t read every citation I like to know they are they in case I ever do want to check out the original source) but, most of all, the subject matter is really interesting. Perhaps a little dry in places but I preferred that to an overly informal tone and I have read plenty much, much, drier – so I think this book probably got the balance about right for me. So, as a woman who is interested in Ancient Greek and Rome, and who gets irritated with 50% of the worlds population being treated as unimportant – and sometimes even completely ignored – by history textbooks *, I had to read.Īnd it’s a very interesting read. ![]() First published in the 70′s it probably contains some disputed or out-of-date ideas and evidence by now, but it was one of (if not ‘the’) first academic texts to thoroughly examine women’s roles in Ancient Greece and Rome. This book, however – whether it’s the more academic tone or simply the subject matter – I really enjoyed. ![]() ![]() ![]() My last couple of forays into non-fiction historical writing have been kind of disappointing three-star affairs. ![]()
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