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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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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- The Beacon at Alexandria
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN10
- 0140104356
- ISBN13
- 9780140104356
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Health & Medicine, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Women, Medicine, Africa, Ancient History, Egypt, Greece, Ancient Rome, 4th Century
- First published
- 1994
- Original title
- The beacon at Alexandria
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 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...