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The surprising lives of ancient women

Daisy Dunn challenges common assumptions about women in antiquity, and explains why they were doing far more than sitting (and weaving) on the sidelines

Published: July 3, 2024 at 7:24 AM

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Did you know that while Mark Antony was having an affair with Cleopatra, his wife, Fulvia, was fighting a battle on his behalf in Rome? Or that the first named author was a woman? What about the fact that the first female victor of the Olympic Games competed in her fifties? Speaking to Lauren Good, Daisy Dunn shines a light on these women in antiquity, whose lives stretch far beyond what we might expect.

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Daisy Dunn is the author of The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024)

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Lauren GoodSenior content producer

Lauren Good is a senior content producer at HistoryExtra

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