Book Review: “Women in Ancient Persia (559-331 B.C)" 1996 by Maria Brosius
Maria Brosius presents a thoughtful and visionary examination of the status and the influential role that the women played in the first Persian Empire. The author reviews the effect of the political hostility between Greece and Persia, drawing conclusions that the situation caused the eventual representation of the women in the Persian sources. According to Brosius, to understand the women, the historical development and the narrative pattern played a major role in the insight. Brosius reveals the roles that women in ancient Persia played, especially in the liberation of fellow women and in the economic development of the empire. Strategic roles ...