Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World 9781681777078, 9781681776750, 168177707X

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9781400865130

Amazons—fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greek

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Women in antiquity: real women across the ancient world 9781138808362, 9781315621425, 1138808369

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physi

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The Amazons

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Cities of the Ancient World

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Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero's Family (Women of the Ancient World) 0203698541, 9780415351782, 9780415351799, 9780203698549

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The Real World of Democracy 0195015347

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Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World 1350050105, 9781350050105

Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination

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Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women From the Ancient World 9781350050129, 9781350050112

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Warrior Women 9781623653149, 1623653142

From earliest times, women gained access to leadership in times of conflict and proved themselves equal to the challenge

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Warrior Women 9780648396406

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