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Originally Posted by Solon
Kitto is great. In many ways, he's a better source for the 1950s than ancient Greece. From pg. 279 of the 1991 Penguin reprint:
"Most men are interested in women, and most women in themselves. Let us therefore consider the position of women in Athens."
His entire discussion on women in Athens is riddled with 1950s stereotypes and expectations.
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I love those old histories that endure as literature in their own right. Shirer, Gibbon, Kitto, Churchill, etc.