And In The Absence Of

Motherhood Is Always An Act Of Courage.

I'm A Sucker For Lost Worlds. I Was Nostalgic Even As A Child. I Was Happiest In My Hometown Library In Adams, Mass., Where Nothing Seemed To Change.

No One In The Modern World Controls The Wealth Or Territory That Cleopatra Did.

Women Enjoyed Rights In Egypt They Would Not Again Enjoy For More Than 2,000 Years. They Owned Ships, Ran Vineyards, Filed Lawsuits, Practiced Medicine. Their Husbands Supported Them After Divorce. Their Power Was Unprecedented.

We Don't Know How Cleopatra Spent Her Days, But We Do Know How Other Hellenistic Monarchs Spent Their Days. There Has Been A Great Amount Of Scholarship In The Last 30 Years About Education In The Hellenistic World And Women In The Hellenistic World. We Now Know How An Upper-class Woman Was Educated In Her Day.