A History of the Wife Marilyn YalomNon-fiction, paperback A look at what it meant to be a wife from ancient times to modern day. I had an inkling of how this was going to go because I started it just as I finished The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World….
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Review: The Epic of Gilgamesh
If you’re into old stories, you can’t get much older than The Epic of Gilgamesh. It was written almost 1,000 years before The Bible, and is preserved on and translated from a series of 11 clay tablets. Although called an “epic,” its original writers had no word corresponding to “epic” or “myth,” so it was…