Pigon (Institute of Classics, U. of Wroclaw, Poland) presents 22 papers from a May 2007 conference on ancient historical writing by Herodotus and his "children," i.e. such writers as Thucydides, Xenop
As the present volume shows, women, particularly aristocratic women,not only resisted this discrimination through the ages, but also built important collections and used them to their own advantage, i
