A 1907 scholarly attempt to recover women's voices from ancient Greek history and literature. Carroll traces female influence from the Heroic Age through the Roman period, drawing primarily on surviving literary texts rather than archaeological evidence. The work represents an early, now largely dated effort to center women in historical narrative, arguing that women exercised significant power in Greek society, both praised and condemned. Modern readers will find it a period piece: valuable as a historical artifact showing how early 20th-century classicists approached gender, but superseded by a century of more rigorous scholarship. The argument that women's "extremism", in virtue or vice, distinguishes their historical presence reflects Victorian-era assumptions as much as ancient evidence.
