This is an A-Z encyclopedia on women in the ancient world with entries which include: why Cleopatra seduced Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, engulfing the Roman Empire in bloody civil war, the historical evidence that substantiates tales of sexual rites in Babylonian temples, how the Greek women who served the god Apollo at Delphi uttered pronouncements that changed the course of history, and the story of the Amazons that fascinated ancient and modern societies.