Tag: Ancient Women

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!

by History of the Ancient World March 22, 2015

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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

by History of the Ancient World March 8, 2015

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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…

by History of the Ancient World November 27, 2012

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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.

by History of the Ancient World July 17, 2011

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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.

by History of the Ancient World March 20, 2011

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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.

by History of the Ancient World February 4, 2011

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Penelope: A Female Heroine Worthy of Admiration

In Homer