Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

368 pages • hardcover • 2002

3 editions

nonfiction classics feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openn...

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