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"Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women -- whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power -- were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it."--Publisher's description.

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"Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women -- whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power -- were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it."--Publisher's description.
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Autorenporträt
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet and The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation. She read Classics at Oxford before receiving an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute and her PhD from UCL. She lives in London, England. Her website is www.daisydunn.co.uk.
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I loved this radical new take on the familiar stories of the ancient world we all think we know but clearly only know the half. Dunn succeeds magnificently not in erasing men but in bringing out of the shadows some extraordinary women and giving them much more than merely reflected glory. The book sparkles with fresh ideas. Anne Sebba, author of Ethel Rosenberg