The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient WorldThoroughly researched and sprightly. a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been.The New York Times A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the centerfrom Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women