The editors of and contributors to the volume under review engage in a hermeneutical project, aiming, as the title implies, both to respond to and move beyond prominent binary readings found in ancient philosophy and its philosophical and scholarly traditions, especially those that insist on a gendered hierarchy wherein Woman is always the subjugated other (p. 6). The volume is comprised of eleven chapters organized into three sections, which range in focus from Homeric epic to the Patristic tradition of Late Antiquity. Thus, the collection is expansive in both scope and span; likewise, the manner in which each author marks their project as feminist is enjoyably varied. So, for example, certain authors seek more positive interpretations for female figures than their traditions have allowed (as in Gregory, Ch. 1, with Circe) while others engage overtly with feminist theory (as in chapters by Biro, Decker, Moore, and Vilhauer). Each author identifies the binary or binaries which they resist, some more explicitly than others, a strategy which will no doubt be of great aid to some readers. Overall, the concept of “the otherwise” is a richly generative site for all manner of questioning, and the editors are to be commended for offering a volume which will no doubt provoke further questions and conversations both along and beyond the lines of inquiry established on the pages here.