Alice’s Reviews > Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It > Status Update

Have finally gotten round to reading this book and oh my goodness
Reading about women only two years older than me dying in childbirth 3,500 years ago is heart wrenching
19 year old mothers’ “bones mixed heartbreakingly with those of their infants who never survived litter the mortuary record of the Bronze Ave Aegean world, the forgotten victims of the most virulent killer of over half the ancient population”