Women and War in Antiquity [Illustrated] 9781421417639, 9781421417622, 1421417626, 1421417634

Persianism in Antiquity [Illustrated] 9783515113823

The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and

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Images of Women in Antiquity 9781135859237, 113585923X

The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book divers

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Images of Women in Antiquity 9781135859237, 0415090954

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Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity 9780812201673

Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and b

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Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity 9780520909700

Theodosian Empresses sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern

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War: Antiquity and Its Legacy 9780755625819, 9781848859340

Over 2600 years ago the Parian poet Archilochus wrote "we chased seven and killed them.. the thousand of us."

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Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi [Illustrated] 1496822013, 9781496822017

The first study with a regional focus of the role women soldiers played in the Civil War

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Women and War 0465092144, 0465092160

Jean Elshtain examines how the myths of Man as “Just Warrior” and Woman as “Beautiful Soul” serve to recreate and secure

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A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity 9781350048133, 9780857850973, 9781350009189

A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women’s history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000CE. This time period i

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Women in Classical Antiquity: From Birth to Death 9781118413517

An introduction to women and gender in the classical world that draws on the most recent research in the field Women in

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