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The Beacon at Alexandria

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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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Rok vydania
1988
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Titul
The Beacon at Alexandria
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Penguin Books
Rok vydania
1988
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
376
ISBN10
0140104356
ISBN13
9780140104356
Série
Prvé vydanie
1994
Pôvodný názov
The beacon at Alexandria
Hodnotenie
4,3 z 5
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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...