A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

in response to Gabriela Riccardi

What’s a book you’ve read that makes great dinner-party conversation? Hit me with the Dadaist art history that made you get into sculpture, the magpie biography whose eccentric subject runs laps around Edies Big and Little, the lightly Christian true-crime where the cult did THAT thing. Weird histories? Shocking industries? Nervy tell-alls with great guts and/or gossip? I want them all!

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I really want to read this new-ish book by Emma Southon, a scholar of ancient history, about 21 remarkable women from the empire of empires. A friend recently told me about it and now I simply need to learn about the lady whose gossip took down the cult of Dionysus.

4 months ago