Every single one of the extant sources who wrote about Cleopatra’s life had an agenda, specifically to demonize Cleopatra and make hers a name to live in infamy. …her story is constructed as much of male fear as fantasy. Cicero, Plutarch, Dio, Lucan, Schiff quotes them all extensively and compensates for their obvious bias by…
Death of an Eye, the first Eye of Isis novel, publishes in paperback on September 5. Click here to pre-order your copy now. They inherited equally and held property independently. Married women did not submit to their husbands’ control. They enjoyed the right to divorce and to be supported after a divorce. Until the time…
“In 1692,” Schiff begins, the Massachussets Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery materialized in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed. What discomfited those who survived the ordeal was not the cunning practice of witchcraft but…
Read more …Salem begins to look like something out of a Monty Python skit.
These are all (I hope) of the books mentioned on the air during Coffee Table this morning. For Christmas gifts for friends and family, as follows: Tom likes Alcohol Can be a Gas by David Blume. Amy likes The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Samantha loves her new cookbook, Fish…
...her story is constructed as much of male fear as fantasy.
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