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Title: Could have been a great resource
Review: I was excited to get this book, as I am an avocational student of the ancient world, from the around the start of united Egypt to the fall of the Roman/Byzantine Empire, and of gender studies. But I was very disappointed in it, due to the weaknesses already mentioned above of typos and the exclusion of extremely important women. For instance, how can one write a book about Notable Women of the Ancient Greek and Roman world without an entry on Hypatia, or the Empress Pulcheria? And why did the authors leave out the incredibly brave and women's rights models of the early deaconesses of emerging Christianity?I wish I could recommend this book wholeheartedly, but I cannot. It does contain much that is important for women's studies, but we need another attempt of this wonderful idea, one that gives us a more complete overview.
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