The Beacon at Alexandria
Rome, fiction
Paganism
Social history
Politics
Judaism
Fiction, historical
Medicine
Fiction, historical, general
Romans, nouvelles
Christianity
History
Fiction
A fictional story set in late antiquity in the Mediterranean, mainly in the cities of Ephesus (western Turkey) and Alexandria (Egypt), about a young aristocratic girl with a gift for medicine and science who flees her home in Ephesus, disguises herself as a eunuch, and studies medicine at the school…
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