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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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- Publicado en
- 1988
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- Título
- The Beacon at Alexandria
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Publicado en
- 1988
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 376
- ISBN10
- 0140104356
- ISBN13
- 9780140104356
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Salud & Medicina, Romance, Novelas históricas, Amor, Mujeres, Medicina, África, Antigüedad, Egipto, Grecia, Antigua Roma, Siglo IV
- Primera publicación
- 1994
- Título original
- The beacon at Alexandria
- Calificación
- 4,3 de 5
- Descripción
- 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...