Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India Narratives of Gender and Sexuality
- List Price: $56.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Description:
The Lightman historian duo profiles the lives of women from archaic Greece in the seventh century BCE to the fall of Rome in 476 CE. Their subjects come from throughout the Greek and Roman world, and include poet Julia Balbilla of second-century BCE Greece; Boudicca, British ruler of the Iceni in the first century; Egyptian queen Cleopatra III in the second century BCE; and Eurydice, political and military leader in Macedonia and Egypt in the fourth and third centuries BCE. Occasional coins are the only illustration. The accounts are suitable for high-school and undergraduate students and general readers.
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