This text investigates the many contrasting images of Athenian women which the classical age produced, and relates them to the great goddesses and mythological heroines who shared with them the space reserved for "the feminine" aspect of experience.
The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought, first published in 1986, comprehensively examines to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs.