Status Updates From The Missing Thread: A Women...

Chapter on the women around Alexander the Great.

Fun getting back into this one even if it is entirely Greek/Roman (western) focused.

kocham kobiety

Uuuu its like Femina but for ancient women :)

It was certainly a different experience reading this book about an event I had previous knowledge on

Got back into this one. Forgot how difficult it is to read/follow we’re the author is going.

“in front of every great woman is a man who believes he is great.”

I’m enjoying how this is a general history with emphasis on women - if you are new (or new to it again, like me, having forgotten much over the years) this will feel less overwhelming and niche— learn about ancient history (starting with the Minoans- emphasis acknowledged by the author to be on Greece and Rome)

Hellooooo? Bread as innately female? The womb is an oven in which a woman ~bakes~ her baby?? Bun in the oven is a thing as far back as 550 BC????

Feels like reading a textbook but I love it

Somewhat dry.

The fact that she speaks of Enheduanna is making me love this book even more

Have switched to audio as it's taking far too long to read in print, and book group is in three days!!!

Christmas book!!!! Love Daisy Dunn and her work, relied on her translation of Catullus for my dissertation. Excited to get into this

Book group is on Sunday. I still have a lot left to read.

I'm reading this for a book group at the end of the month that's coming up faster than planned :)

The main title is accurate and the book successfully traces the missing thread of women in ancient history. However the subtitle is misleading.
The main story, well told, is ancient history as done by men with women only occasionally making an appearance or impact on events.
There is little to no history of the majority of women or their daily lives. Must like ancient history many battles and assassinations.

But when you went to a man's bed, you forgot All the words you heard from your mother as a child, Dear Baucis: Aphrodite sowed forgetfulness in your heart.
I mourn you but now I look past your [scruples] ...

Some figures from history owe their survival to serendipity but many more owe it to design. The disappearance of so many women was not simple chance. The men who penned the vast majority of the surviving sources simply wrote them out of the narrative as unimportant.

Couldn’t find this using the ISBN: 9781474615617. This is the hardback copy by Weidenfeld & Nicolson first published in (May?) 2024.

Borrowed by the library. I am the first reader of this copy.