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She is a woman in conflict with her time. Gillian Bradshaw's acclaimed novel portrays the last days of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Charis of Ephesus, a young noblewoman struggling to escape the narrow domestic straitjacket of convention. Spurred on by her family's attempts to marry her off to the cruel governor Festinus, Charis disguises herself as a eunuch and runs away to Alexandria. It is her dream - a seemingly impossible dream for a woman in AD 371 - to study the arts of Hippocratic medicine and to become a physician...
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The Beacon at Alexandria, Gillian Bradshaw
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- Année de publication
- 1988
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- Titre
- The Beacon at Alexandria
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books
- Publié
- 1988
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN10
- 0140104356
- ISBN13
- 9780140104356
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Santé & Médecine, Romans d'amour, Romans historiques, Amour, Femmes, Médecine, Afrique, Époque antique, Égypte, Grèce, Rome antique, 4ème siècle
- Première publication
- 1994
- Titre original
- The beacon at Alexandria
- Évaluation
- 4,3 sur 5
- Description
- She is a woman in conflict with her time. Gillian Bradshaw's acclaimed novel portrays the last days of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Charis of Ephesus, a young noblewoman struggling to escape the narrow domestic straitjacket of convention. Spurred on by her family's attempts to marry her off to the cruel governor Festinus, Charis disguises herself as a eunuch and runs away to Alexandria. It is her dream - a seemingly impossible dream for a woman in AD 371 - to study the arts of Hippocratic medicine and to become a physician...