“Women were invented to make men’s lives more difficult.” With characteristic style and wit, Daisy Dunn opens her new book by quoting Hesiod. As this misogynistic Greek farmer-poet put it in his Works ...

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Q: In the 1970s (I think) there was a popular song with the words "16 vestal virgins." You probably can't tell me the name of the song, but can you tell me what a vestal virgin is? I looked up vestal ...

Tuccia's judgment Folded fan, the vellum leaf mounted and painted with gouache. The front depicts the famous Roman vestal virgin on trial for a crime of which she is innocent. The reverse depicts a ...