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Sunday Feature: The Sisters of Aphrodite

on BBC Radio 3

Classicist Bettany Hughes sets out on a journey to find the real women behind the great goddesses of prehistory.
Archaeologists and feminists have assumed that Bronze-Age female figurines depict a female deity. But Hughes discovers that the lives of women otherwise lost to history can be decoded from these beautiful, baffling figures. Producer Philip Sellars

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Bettany Hughes
Producer:
Philip Sellars

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