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

Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell

eAudio - 2024

A 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 were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives o...ur understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines and is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and...

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English
Main Authors
Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell
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File Size496 GB
ISBN9780593908853
Release Date7/30/2024