Women at the Mercy of Men

Simon Goldhill

Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece by Helen King

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From the LRB letters page: [ 1 April 1999 ] H.T. Dixon.

Simon Goldhill, the author of Foucault’s Virginity, is a reader in Greek literature and culture at Cambridge, and a fellow of King’s College.

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