Content area
Full Text
Deborah Gera. Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus; Joyce Tyldesley. Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh.
WOMEN ON THE EDGE OF ANCIENT WAR
Although these are both fine books, neither has a great deal to say about women and war, nor indeed about ancient military institutions and warfare in general. Because the available literature on women and war in the ancient world is so scanty, however, even relatively marginal scholarly treatments are not to be ignored.
Deborah Gera holds an Oxford doctorate in classics and currently lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus contains brief notices of fourteen Greek and barbarian women of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The book has two major parts. The first is an introduction to the treatise as a whole, including the Greek text and its translation in parallel columns ("Text and translation," pp....