The Missing Thread A Women's History of the Ancient World

Daisy Dunn

eBook - 2024

One of The Smithsonian’s 10 best history books of 2024One of BBC History Magazine's best books of 2024“Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been.”—The New York TimesA dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of historyAround four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they wer...e simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other... more