I picked this up because I felt the ladies weren't getting their due in my classroom. Honestly, how many women have we talked about aside from Cleopatra and whaserhame, you know, Catullus' on-again-off-again girlfriend. Yea... Then, I find this book which starts with the warrior queen of the Iceni, Boudica, who led a mostly sucessful revolt againt the Romans in 60 CE and she (Fraser) uses Boudica as a foil to illuminate other great queens of history, about half of which could be relevent to a Latin class.
So, that's almost two-thirds relevance for a fairly short book, awesome! Right? Um... Not so much. :\ Fraser is a good historian, but she's also British and writing for an educated British audience of the early 80's. It's dense! Like, atomic weight of lead. It's a good book, just not (I fear) for a high school classroom.
Alas. Earwax.
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