PositiveThe Times Literary SupplementIn a deft survey of the contours of the classical world, elegantly stitched together into a narrative that weaves through 3,000 years of history, Dunn offers a much-needed addition to standard histories that include only the men ... But one might ask how such a narrative, where women are woven through the exploits of emperors and kings, ends up amplifying and reinscribing traditional male histories; or whether the sources on which such a history leans – overwhelmingly from the male text-based tradition – are unreliable witnesses to women.
