Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being (Women and Culture Series) by Page DuBois

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Traces the development of the Greek hierarchical view of life that continues to permeate Western society

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DDC/MDS: 938 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Greece to 323
LCC: DF93 .D8 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greece History of Greece Antiquities. Civilization. Culture. Ethnography
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