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The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World

byDaisy Dunn

Classicist Daisy Dunn retells the ancient Mediterranean world by restoring women to the center of its political, intellectual, artistic, military, and domestic history. Queens, poets, priestesses, philosophers, workers, enslaved women, mothers, and rebels appear across Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, and neighboring cultures. Dunn works against sources that ignored or distorted female lives, reading familiar events from altered perspectives and recovering fragmentary evidence. The book is not a separate history of women but a fuller history of antiquity, showing how much the standard narrative loses when half of human experience becomes a missing thread.

Publisher

Viking

Publication date

2024

Format

Print edition

Pages

512

ISBN

9780593299661