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The bad-tempered man
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ISBN: 085668225X 0856686107 0856682241 0865161135 0865161143 Year: 2000 Publisher: Warminster Aris and Phillips

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The girl from Samos or The in-laws
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ISBN: 0485120194 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Athlone

Prisoner of history : Aspasia of Miletus and her biographical tradition
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ISBN: 0195087127 0585372462 9780585372464 9780195087123 160129963X 9781601299635 1280442328 9781280442322 9786610442324 6610442320 0195358651 0197705006 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Aspasia of Miletus, next to Sappho and Cleopatra, is one of the best known women of the classical world. This study traces the construction of Aspasia's biographical tradition and shows how it has prevented her from taking her rightful place as a contributor to the ancient world.


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Celestial women : imperial wives and concubines in China from Song to Qing
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ISBN: 9781442255012 9781442255029 1442255013 1442255021 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield,

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"This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor's relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women's participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor's relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China's transformation into a republic"--Provided by publisher.

The Roman mistress : ancient and modern representations
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ISBN: 019815075X 0199228337 1281346144 0191541400 9780191541407 9780199228331 9780199228331 9781281346148 1383005982 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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