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LEFKOWITZ, M.R., Heroines and Hysterics. Duckworth, London, 1981. IX,96p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Although women’s studies have flourished, it is only recently that serious scholarly attention has been paid to the study of women in antiquity. This is due partly to the scattered nature of the evidence, parly to the loss of so much essential information about both private and social life, partly to the almost total lack of female biography. In this book Lefkowitz addresses herself to a number of interesting questions about Greek and Roman women, ranging from the patterns of women’s lives in myth and drama to the curious medical theories of hysteria and the ‘wandering womb’, from the poetry of Sappho and Semonides to the motivations of St Perpetua’s martyrdom. Lefkowitz shows how modern experience affects our understanding of the past, and controversely how ancient views of women’s life and mind continue to affect our thinking today. From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 25.00 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780715616727