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There is a story about the Vestal Virgins that illuminates the religion of ancient Rome. It comes from 390 BC, when things were pretty bad because the Gauls were approaching Rome and the half of the ...

“Women were invented to make men’s lives more difficult.” With characteristic style and wit, Daisy Dunn opens her new book by quoting Hesiod. As this misogynistic Greek farmer-poet put it in his Works ...