![]() ![]() Originally published: London : Viking, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. She has an engaging eye for incidental detail and draws fascinating parallels and contrasts between the ancient and our modern world. Joyce Tyldesley draws upon archaeological, historical and ethnographical evidence to piece together a vivid picture of daily life in Egypt - marriage and the home, work and play, grooming, religion - all viewed from a female perspective. Furthermore, women fortunate enough to be members of the royal harem were vastly influential, as were those rare women who rose to rule Egypt as 'female kings'. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners and even live alone without the protection of a male guardian. ![]() In examining women as king, Tyldesley explores six women rulers (two of whom may be more legend than fact), the bulk of the chapter discussing Hatshepsut and Nefertiti. During the dynastic period (3000 BC - 332 BC), as the Greek historian Herodotus was intrigued to observe, Egyptian women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, unrivalled, indeed, by women in Europe until the late nineteenth century. The reverse is the case in Daughters of Isis. ![]()
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