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Uppity Women of Ancient Times Paperback – January 1, 1995

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Profiles two hundred unusual women throughout history, including gladiators, public servants, murderers, rulers, scientists, and homemakers

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Conari Pr
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January 1, 1995
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7.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches
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1573240109
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Okay, you've heard of Sappho, Nefertiti, maybe even the pharaoh Hatshepsut and the warrior queen Tomyris. But what about the murderous Macedonian queen Arsinoe, the Talmudic teacher Beruria, the Greek priestess Lysimache, or Audata-Eurydice, Philip of Macedon's horse-riding Illyrian queen? And then there is Kisaya, a Sumerian slave who sued for the right to choose her own husband. Leon has collected hundreds of historical women's names and the facts about the lives of those who bore them. Where very little is known, she fleshes out the text with fascinating cultural tidbits. Rendered in a zippy tone, such stuff makes delightful reading. Patricia Monaghan

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200 pyramid builders, poets, princesses and other women in positions of power over the centuries are profiled in a series of biographies concentrating on unusual women. Uppity Women of Ancient Times is an excellent, fun title which is packed with information on women who influenced history and created lasting names for themselves. -- Midwest Book Review

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Conari Pr (January 1, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 237 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1573240109
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1573240109
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches

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- #8,069 in Women in History
- #13,360 in Ancient Civilizations
- #17,473 in Women's Studies (Books)

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My roots: convinced I was left on strangers' doorstep in the Pacific Northwest, I fled in my teens and began to fill the first of seven passports. Wanderlust is apparently hereditary; my progeny now busy filling their own passports.

My higher education: mostly self-inflicted

I collect: pyramids, ancient cemeteries, seashells, foreign languages, long stays in foreign lands.

Allergic to: gray skies, household routines, watches, gas-guzzlers.

Addicted to: laughter, Spanish aceitunas con anchoas, George Dalaras and other Greek music, foreign films, beach walks, getting a glimpse of animals and birds in the wild.

Am a magnet for: odd facts, weird stories, unusual connections (all of them fodder for my writing)

Am sustained by: a worldwide web of family, friends, publishing colleagues, and readers

My books: 35 titles (about half of them for readers 10 and up). Many, miraculously still in print.

My GOALS as a writer of nonfiction:

1. Dig deeper to find the whole human history, to illuminate the unsung men and women of long ago

2. Leaven my books with humor and humanity

3. Try to astonish the reader on every page. Astonish, from the Latin attonare, "to be struck by lightning." Thus to write in a way that leaves the reader thunderstruck.

My research: more fun than a whodunit. In fact, I go through a lot of shoe leather even when I'm time-traveling.That's why I call myself (partly tongue in cheek) Vicki Leon, historical detective

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too flippant and brief

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2022

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I liked the idea of this book but when reading the descriptions of the various women the author was too flippant and talked about emotions and things that happened that were clearly not documented since they were with a modern sensibility. The very first entry mentions Karaoke and glorifies suicide ... not my cup of tea. There was also a lot of repetition and what seemed like filler, I would much have preferred half the number of entries with twice the information on each.

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Andorrac

An amusing look at women who lived long ago

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2014

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Does a good job of showing that women of ancient times (in the Mediterranean area) were perfectly capable of coping with life, could do all kinds of things, and achieve fame, and were not the isolated, downtrodden housewives so many people assume falsely that they were.

In reality, ancient women were more equal partners in many ways than most western women have been until quite recently, and the downtrodden menials of those times (male and female) were slaves. I do not recall that Leon makes that point, preferring to show how marvelous it was that so many women were able to do what they did. She is also not unwilling at times to read more into the scanty evidence than is likely to be there.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2012

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This is my favorite of the entire Uppity Women series. Although the Bible and historians don't tell us much about women in ancient times, the author has found out a lot about them. She has done a thorough job of researching her subjects' stories and the history surrounding them, and gives us delightful "dirt" as well as making her readers realize how important and powerful women have always been.
I own the entire series, and often go back and read about some of the women who were important in their lifetimes, but often totally neglected by historians. These are not dry historical essays. The women really come to life in Vicki Leon's writings.

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M. T.

This book is a fun read and gives a brief glimpse into the lives ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2017

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This book is a fun read and gives a brief glimpse into the lives of ancient women. The stories are all pretty brief, a page or two at most with an occasional sketch. If you're really uptight and have no sense of humor, then you might not enjoy this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2020

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Give this book to a middle schooler. She loved it!!!

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Diane Mautner

New and interesting information

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Nice to be able to pick up a book and put it down for a quick read.

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Heather Ventura

Some of these stories are a great supplement to an ancient history class

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2016

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Some of these stories are a great supplement to an ancient history class. However, not all stories are what I would consider 'age appropriate' for some grades.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2013

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I really like this book. It's funny, quick paced and diverting. I gave this copy to my Aunt who is ill and I wanted to enjoy some laughter even when she isn't feeling well enough to have a long attention span.

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or acceptance of a poor source. By all means

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 6, 2016

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I have mixed feelings about Vicki Leon’s books. On the one hand, her cutesy writing style is far too juvenile to my tastes, and she often writes about her subjects with a plethora of inaccuracies cropping up. On the other hand, she usually manages to highlight some obscure snippets of information that have passed me by. For that reason, I decided to read Uppity Women, taking the information contained within with a huge pinch of salt, mainly as a prompt that I could then find out further and more accurate information about the women written about in my own time. There’s not too much more to say about the book than that. The entries are short, but pique the interest. Some of the women I knew quite extensively already, others were brand new names to me.

As regards to the inaccuracies, it'd take too long to list them here, but many are a result of outdated research now overturned, and others are errors in familial relationships or monarch lists, confusing different historical individuals, or acceptance of a poor source. By all means, read the book, just treat what it says very cautiously, and look up the real history for yourself.

LESLEY

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 20, 2012

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How hidden we were, women, in lesser times. Even today the position, role and existence of women is curtailed and obscured by cultures and laws. We, in the western world, are favoured in our relative freedom and equality. Not so everywhere! What of ancient times? What of the women from all areas of life and society? How did they fare?

Most of history is exactly that HIS story. I went in search of HER story and found very little, except a few books on the most influencial or outrageous women pertinent to our own time. Then, I saw a cheeky little volume with the presumptious title of "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" What a treasure!!!!!!

Within these small pages are the synopses of vital lives....mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, courtesans, queens and rebels etc. Each story is only a page or two long, but they introduce us to real people with real lives, with heartbreak, agony, joy, eternal love, the essence of women, the love of her children, and not least, the joy of living. There are names, most of them to be exact, that we have never heard before, lives we could never imagine, accomplishments most of us would never dare. Yet, here they are between the pages of this joyous little volume, all celebrated with an airy humour and light-hearted touch.

Perhaps, what I appreciate most about this book is that, with a little imagination, page after page, these ladies become more real, more palpable to us. There are queens who started out as whores, princesses who risked all for country or love, women who had a great sense of their own worth regardless of the current atmosphere toward the female of our species. Poets, outstanding athletes, warriors, mathematicians, astrologers, court advisors. Any field that men can take, women also occupied and did so with vigour and equal success. They won wars, defeated emperors and kings, gave birth to the same and married such men as well. Real women with real lives...the good, the bad and the ugly! They are all here.

I have three daughters, all smart, strong willed and successful in their own lives. My mother was a strong minded woman of humble beginnings and ending. I look at the world we live in, the people I see at the mall, on the news etc. and I imagine their counter-parts in millenia past. For me, this book introduced me to over 200 new friends and mentors.

The past is filled with the lives of all people, men, women and children alike. This fun little book brings the pulse back to a comatose history of the human race. It virtually throbs with vitalty. All you have to do is use a sprinkle of imagination and there you are...some time past, some place else...and life goes on!

Would recommend this to any woman, girl, or any male who might dare to venture into unknown territory. It is amusing, concise and just plain fun!

Eva

Book was in good shape

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 7, 2020

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