By Owain Williams As it is Women's History Month in some parts of the world, I thought I would review a recent book that examines the place of women in ancient Greek literature: Emily Hauser's How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature. Sappho, “the most famous woman poet of ancient Greece… had no wor

Karwansaray | Ancient History Magazine

03.04.2024

Ancient History Podcast - A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

In this episode we talk to Dr Emma Southon about her new book A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women, the position of women in ancient Rome, and the struggles of working in academia. You can also listen to the first episode on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.

Karwansaray | Ancient History Magazine

11.04.2024

Ancient Greek Cheese Graters

By Owain Williams One thing that I really love about reading history – not just ancient history – is delving into the intimate details about daily life, whether that be the jobs of the non-elites, such as sausage sellers and wood collectors, or clothing, and food. One such object that has taken my interest recently is

Karwansaray | Ancient History Magazine

25.04.2024

The Connected Iron Age - Review

By Owain Williams The ‘typical’ areas of ancient history that readers are most familiar with, based on general trends in popular history publishing and on our own reader survey, are likely to be the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean (ca. 1600–1150 BC), Classical and Hellenistic Greece (ca. 500–30 BC), and the Roman

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