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Melodies for the Gladiatrix: Uppity Women in the Roman Arena

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These essays are excerpted from Vicki Leon's Working IX to V book, a fascinating look at 150 jobs and occupations in the ancient Greek and Roman workplaces--a surprising number done by women. (Walker & Company, 2007; available in print and ebook editions. one-click ordering at www.vickileon.com)



The author can be contacted via her facebook page, Vicki Leon's Books for Uppity Women.

OEN Managing Editor Meryl Ann Butler interviewed Vicki here:
Uppity Women in History/Herstory: Interview with Author Vicki Leon
Uppity woman Vicki Leon is the author of a series of inspiring books about "Uppity Women" through the ages. Engaging and humorous, as well as enlightening, the books are based on her meticulous research, yet it seems so very wrong to call them "HIS-torical." In this OpEdNews interview, Leon shares some of her uppity women stories, and how she started on the path to track them down.

Vicki's monthly Uppity Women Series was announced in this article by OEN Managing Editor Meryl Ann Butler:

Announcing Uppity Women Wednesdays at OEN.

This article announces the OEN series with author Vicki Leà ³n and features a pair of exciting stories about two inspiring matriots and how they helped change the course of American history - young Revolutionary horsewomen, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington and 22-year-old Deborah Champion.


The gladiatrix statue pictured in this article is in the collection of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) in Hamburg, Germany, and the photo was used with the museum's kind permission. With its 500,000 objects from 4,000 years, the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) is among Europe's leading art museums. Founded in 1874, its world-class collections range from antiquity to the present and cover Europe as well as the Near- and Far East in 10,000 square meters of exhibition space. The museum's Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/MKGHamburg



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Vicki Leon, author of over 35 nonfiction books on women's history, ancient history, and travel, along with pictorial books for younger readers on wildlife and earth's fragile habitats, lives on the California coast but often returns to her favorite (more...)
 
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