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ISBN/UID: 9780231144988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01 September 2008
Description
At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty....
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208 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231144988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 01 September 2008
Description
At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty....