Author: Mary Lefkowitz

In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa …

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Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides’ dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when t …

Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides’ dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when t …

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An extensive and fascinating collection of stories featuring both famous and everyday women, giving a well-rounded view of the lives of women in the ancient world.When did women first become rulers, …