Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.
Exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history include Lucretia and Claudia Quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance; fierce Republican-era women such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image; women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, most prominently Livia (58 BC ...
This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome. List [ edit ]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
The women attacked both the Romans and the Ambrones who tried to desert. [143] 102/101 BCE [144] – General Marius of the Romans fought the Teutonic Cimbrians. Cimbrian women accompanied their men into war, created a line in battle with their wagons and fought with poles and lances, [145] as well as staves, stones, and swords. [146]
Dina and Clarenza were two women of Messina who defended their city from an attack by Charles of Anjou during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. Fantaghirò is the main character of an ancient Tuscany fairy tale named Fanta-Ghirò, persona bella, an Italian fable about a rebellious youngest daughter of a warrior king, a warrior princess.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
According to Shelley Haley, Pomeroy's work "legitimized the study of Greek and Roman women in ancient times". [21] However, classics has been characterised as a "notoriously conservative" field, [21] and initially women's history was slow to be adopted: from 1970 to 1985, only a few articles on ancient women were published in major journals. [22]