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  2. Landmark Ancient Histories - Wikipedia

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    The series was received with appreciation and positive reviews from both scholars and book reviews. For example, Edward Rothstein wrote in the New York Times that "the publication of 'The Landmark Herodotus' (Pantheon) which includes a new translation by Andrea L. Purvis, and extensive annotation by scholars is such a worthy occasion for celebrating Herodotus' contemporary importance."

  3. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Through this diary, Gemma learns of an ancient group of powerful women called the Order and becomes convinced that her visions are linked to it. Members of the Order could open a door between the human world and other realms, help spirits cross over into the afterlife, and also possessed the powers of prophecy, clairvoyance, and what was ...

  4. Biographies of Exemplary Women - Wikipedia

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    This book follows the lièzhuàn (列傳 "arrayed biographies") biographical format established by the Chinese historian Sima Qian.The word liènǚ (列女 "famous women in history") is sometimes understood as liènǚ (烈女 "women martyrs"), which Neo-Confucianists used to mean a "woman who commits suicide after her husband's death rather than remarry; [a] woman who dies defending her honor."

  5. List of archaeologically attested women from the ancient ...

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    Such archaeological evidence reveals valuable data not just about the individual woman herself, but also about women's history in ancient regions more generally. As many scholars have noted, archaeology provides an important corrective because ancient literary sources often emphasized elite women, were written by male authors, or the women were ...

  6. ‘12 Badass Women’ by Huffington Post

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    Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?

  7. History vs Women - Wikipedia

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    History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know is a 2018 book by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, illustrated by T.S. Abe, which profiles 25 women from history. [1] The subjects featured are from a diverse range of historical periods and locations, and include women who had a negative impact on the world.

  8. Women in ancient warfare - Wikipedia

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    The women attacked both the Romans and the Ambrones who tried to desert. [143] 102/101 BCE [144] – General Marius of the Romans fought the Teutonic Cimbrians. Cimbrian women accompanied their men into war, created a line in battle with their wagons and fought with poles and lances, [145] as well as staves, stones, and swords. [146]

  9. Judith P. Hallett - Wikipedia

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    In April 2018, a one-day international colloquium on women and classical scholarship was held at the University of Maryland to honor her retirement. [8] In 2023 she, along with her co-editors Bartolo Natoli and Angela Pitts, won the Bolchazy-Carducci Pedagogy Award for the book Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome. [9]

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