This fascinating, charming, enlightening
book of
women who made a difference (and whose names, lives, and legacies are known to us somehow) covers the circum-Mediterranean regions, from Babylon and Mesopotamia, Egypt and NOrth Africa, Asia Minor and the HOly Land, Greece and the Islands, to Rome and the Western Provinces from approximately 2500 B.C. to 450 A.D. These women ranged from courtesans and slaves to pharoahs, empresses, warriors, and saints. These biographies and/or mentions are brief; they are listed alphabetically in the index, although they are listed regionally and temporally in the book. This book is a delight for students, lovers, and connoiseurs of human behaviour and nature, for ancient
history buffs, and for curious people generally. It is very encouraging to women, who are so frequently told that they cannot do...(fill in the blank). So many of these women did. The ones mentioned include:
Abisimti,
Achillia,
Ada,
Adad-Guppi,
Adea-Eurydice,
Aglaonice,
Agnodice,
Agrippina the Elder,
Agrippina the Younger,
Ahotep,
Aithra,
Amat-Mamu,
Amazonia,
Amytis,
Ankhesenamun,
Antiochus,
Anyte,
Apama,
Apollonis,
Aquilia Severa,
Archidamea,
Archippe,
Arete,
Aristonice,
Arsinoe One,
Arsinoe Two,
Artemisia One,
Artemisia Two,
Asellina,
Ashursharrat,
Aspasia,
Athaliah,
Atossa,
Audata-Eurydice,
Babata,
Barsine-Stateira,
Bassilla,
Berenice Two,
Bernice,
Beruria,
Bilistiche,
Blaesilla,
Boudicca,
Callipatira,
Chanate,
Cleopatra Selene,
Cleopatra Seven,
Cleopatra, the
physician,
Cleopatra, the Syrian,
Cleopatra Three,
Cleopatra Two,
Cornelia,
Cratespolis,
Cynana,
Cynisca,
Damophila,
Deborah,
Didyma,
Dionysia of Egypt,
Dionysia of Tralles,
Dorcas,
Elissa,
Elpinice,
Enheduana,
Ennigaldi,
Erinna,
Eristi-Aya,
Esther,
Etheria,
Ety,
Eudocia,
Eudoxia,
Eumachia,
Eustochium,
Fabiola,
Faustilla,
Felicity,
Fulvia,
Gaia Afrania,
Galla Placidia,
Gnathaeana,
Gorgo,
Hatsheput,
Hedea,
Helena of Alexandria,
Helena of Drepanum,
Herais,
Herodias,
Hetepheres,
Hipparchia,
Hispala Fecenia,
Hortensia,
Hydna,
Hypatia,
Hypsicratea,
Iaia,
Iltani,
Innashagga,
Isadora of Artemisia,
"J",
Jael,
Jezebel,
Julia Balbilla,
Julia Domna,
Julia Maesa,
Julia Mammaea,
Julia Severa,
Julia Soaemias,
Justa Honoria,
Khentkawes,
Kiru,
Kisaya,
Kiya,
Korinna,
Kubaba,
Kubatum,
Lais One,
Lais Two,
Lamia,
Leaina,
Leontium,
Livia,
Locusta,
Lollia Paulina,
Lucretia,
Lysimache,
Makare,
Makeda,
Maria Prophetissima,
Mastigga,
Melanie the elder,
Melanie the younger,
Melitine,
Menodora,
Merit Ptah,
Meritaten,
Meryet-Neith,
Messalina,
Musa,
Na''qia,
Nefertari,
Nefertiti,
Nefrure,
Nitocris,
Octavia,
Olympias,
Omm-Karja,
Pamphila,
Paula,
Perpetua,
Peseshet,
Pheretima,
Phila,
Philaenis,
Phile,
Phryne,
Plancia Magna,
Plotina,
Poppaea Magna,
Primigenia,
Priscilla,
Puduhepa,
Pulcheria,
Pythionice,
Rhodopis,
Roxane,
Sabina,
Salome,
Sappho,
Semiramis,
Shepenwhepet,
Shibtu,
Shudi-Ad,
Sibatum,
Sybil of Cumae,
Sobeeferu,
Sophonisba,
Sulpicia,
Tanaquil,
Taram,
Tata,
Telesilla,
Teuta,
Thais of Alexandria,
Thais of Athens,
Thargelia,
Theano,
Thecla,
Themista,
Timycha,
Tiye,
Tomyris,
Tryphosa,
Tullia,
Tulpunnaya,
Twosret,
Ummidia Quadratilla,
Ur Nanshe,
Vashti, Vestilia,
Xanthippe,
Zenobia.
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