Leon, Vicki.

Uppity women of ancient times / Vicki Leon. - Berkeley : Conari Press, c1995. - 243 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Includes index.

Uppity B.C. defined and discovered.--Singers, sexual stand-ins & a sassy slave or two : Babylon & Mesopotamia.--Pharaohs, physicians, fat cats & filly-fanciers : Egypt & North Africa.--Track stars, tricky queens, trollops & true-blue martyrs : Asia Minor & the Holy Land.--Pirates, politicians, porn artists & pure maidens : Greece & the Islands.--Poisoners, poets, power brokers & paragons of virtue : Rome & the western provinces.

The latest volume in the Wild Women series presents vignettes about women of the ancient world in Babylon, Mesopotamia, Egypt, North Africa, Asia Minor, the Holy Land, Greece, Rome, and the western provinces.

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WOMEN.
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