The surprising lives of ancient women

History Extra podcast

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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Did you know that while Mark Antony was having an affair with Cleopatra, his wife, Fulvia, was fighting a battle on his behalf in Rome? Or that the first named author was a woman? What about the fact that the first female victor of the Olympic Games competed in her fifties? Speaking to Lauren Good, Daisy Dunn shines a light on these women in antiquity, whose lives stretch far beyond what we might expect. (Ad) Daisy Dunn is the author of The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Thread-Shaped-Ancient-History/dp/1474615619/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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