BOOKS: Hot New Ancient History Releases!: January
If improving your reading is your goal for 2016, you’ve come to the right place! Here are our hot new ancient history releases for January!
The Stages of Womanhood in Ancient Greece and Their Effect on Healing
I selected the treatises The Nature of Women, Diseases of Young Girls, and Diseases of Women, to examine how physicians would theoretically treat women with a wide variety of diseases. I
Helen of Troy Reloaded
Helen of Troy Reloaded By Lisa George and Anne Duncan Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World…
The Emancipation of Women in Ancient Rome
Only twice in the History of Mankind, have women been considered legally equal to men. As far as we can see, this has occurred but twice : in Rome in Antiquity, and now in North America and Europe.
The Influence of Context on the Leadership of Cleopatra
She is an important leader in that she was one of the first influential female leaders in her time with more power than most female leaders could not acquire. She is important figure in history because her life in leadership influenced her people, Egypt, and the world.
Contraception and Abortion in the Greco-Roman World
The author discusses the validity of the claim that, in Antiquity, effective contraceptives and abortifacients were available, were widely used, and their use was responsible for the decline of population in certain periods.