What did women do in ancient Greece and Rome? Did Socrates' wife Xanthippe ever hear his dialogues on beauty and truth? How many many women actually read the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides? When pagan goddesses were as powerful as gods, why was the status of women generally so low? Why, in traditional histories, is half the population effectively invisible?
This unique and important book spans a period of 1500 years - from the fall of Troy to the death of Constantine. It examines all the available evidence - literary and archaeological - and reconstructs the lives of women from all classes of society.
- ISBN10 0805235620
- ISBN13 9780805235623
- Publish Date 21 September 1978 (first published 13 January 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Schocken Books Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English