Before you read the history, read about the historian.

Lewis Lapham interviewed Richard Cohen on the publication of this book, and I read it mostly because of the whole 37 pages on women historians. It’s not Cohen’s fault. Apart from Sappho, we possess almost no female voice from the ancient world…Clever women were a threat to men, thus the myriad stories of women’s vanity,…

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