Product Description: In the fifth century BC Thebes, faced with the challenges presented by defeat and disgrace in the Persian Wars – it had sided with the invaders – succeeded not only in regaining its former prominence, but also in laying the groundwork for its hegemony of Greece in the early part of the fourth century...read more

Product Description: Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece...read more

The widowed mother of two, Caroline Evans is delighted when she meets and marries the charismatic man of her dreams, until she and her children move into her new spouse's apartment in the legendary Rockwell on Central Park West, and her son's instinctivemisgivings become a horrifying reality when a young neighbor vanishes and her own daughter begins to waste away. (view table of contents)