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Josephine Quinn: Empress Theodora, 4 May 2017
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
by David Potter.
Oxford, 277 pp., £17.99, January 2016,978 0 19 974076 5 Show More
by David Potter.
Oxford, 277 pp., £17.99, January 2016,
“... One problem with writing about the lives of Greek and Roman women is that the Greek and Roman men who wrote about them first tended to be more interested in writing about other men. As a result, famous ancient women are usually famous because they had more famous male relatives. The protagonists of the ten books so far published in Oxford University Press’s series on ‘Women in Antiquity’ include a bishop’s mother (Monica), a tribune’s sister (Clodia Metelli), an emperor’s mother-in-law (Faustina I), a king’s daughter (Arsinoe) and, with some double counting, no fewer than eight politicians’ wives ... ”