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Ambiguo malanno by Eva Cantarella · Booklabria

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Ambiguo malanno

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Ambiguo malanno

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First published: 1986
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.

Subjects: History
Women
Histoire
Social conditions
Geschichte
Femmes
Set in: Rome
Greece

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