Book description
Profiles two hundred unusual women throughout history, including gladiators, public servants, murderers, rulers, scientists, and homemakers
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1 author picked Uppity Women of Ancient Times as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This one is just for fun. I regularly pick up these modern collections of brief biographies of ancient warrior women, doomed queens, she captains, etc. I like to see if “my” characters are included and how they fare with a non-scholarly author. Also, I like to see if any catch my eye for further research and possibly(?) a novel.
Like its sister books, this one is written in a breezy modern style with a certain amount of snark. Leon gives two pages each to about one hundred women who lived from 2500 BC to AD 450 around the Mediterranean and…
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