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Joyce Salisbury is Frankenthal professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI.<i>Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World</i> is very highly recommended as a core addition to any academic world history or women's studies reference collection.
Wisconsin Bookwatch
This volume should be helpful to high school students, undergraduates, and general readers.
Booklist
Excellent maps, geneaological charts, and indexing make the work easy to use, while the prose style entices readers to delve into the content.
Choice
[N]one can match the breadth and depth of coverage . . . No other work covers the general articles as well.
Association of College and Research Libraries
What a wonderful book. . . . The clever thing with this encyclopedia is that the cover suggests accessibility and a gentle read, and indeed you do get that. The text is meticulously indexed . . . The foreword is enticing and the preface is extremely helpful.
The School Librarian
An interested general reader can drive a lot of pleasure from dipping into the <i>Encyclopedia</i>. The ancient accounts themselves take center stage; scholarly interpretations are deftly handled. Salisbury does not bog down the reader with multiple interepretations or a catalog of academic disputes.
Feminist Collections
An extensive and fascinating collection of stories featuring both famous and everyday women, giving a well-rounded view of the lives of women in the ancient world.
When did women first become rulers, athletes, soldiers, heroines, and villains?