Mathew Lyons

Heroines of antiquity – from Minoan Crete to Boudica’s Britain

Daisy Dunn’s ‘history of antiquity written through women’ includes warrior princesses, scheming matriarchs, poets, priestesses and tragic nymphs

Boudica harangues the Britons. [Getty Images] 
issue 01 June 2024
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  • The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

    Daisy Dunn

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 464, £25

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