All those books talk about is the remarkable achievements of men.
Who invited those guys anyway? We get it, it's a real pain and pretty fatal actually, definitely not worth it in today's society. Imagine if we taxed women and men differently these days! While men were taking baths, having toga parties, and watching people wrestle, the ladies were raising the future emperors, holding the purse strings, and whispering into the ears of politicians to make their vision of the country they wanted to live in a reality. The woman of the era might not have had their words written on parchment but we know they were the ones holding the chariot reigns.