A review by arachan
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women by Emma Southon

challenging funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A blunt history of the Roman history without the baked in biases of White European Male historians.  Southon is a very engaging historian who manages to see beyond the dry history of empire to show how some women left their mark on the history of the Roman Kingdom/Republic/Empire.   She refuses to be overawed by the fanboys of Roman history and challenges the reader to look beyond the writings of the Roman elite to consider the more complicated and nuanced picture of the way the Romans lived and thought of the world.