The Missing Thread

One of The Smithsonian ’s 10 best history books of 2024 One of BBC History Magazine 's best books of 2024 “Thoroughly researched and sprightly…. a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been.” — The New York Times A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand y