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List of women warriors in folklore. The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred ...
Archers in Greek mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Apollo (6 C, 42 P) Artemis (7 C, 20 P) E. Eros ...
Greek mythology. Aristaeus, god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting. Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon. Heracles Kynagidas. Pan, in addition to being a god of the wild and shepherds, was also a hunting god. Persephone, the goddess of life and death, also known for being Hades ' wife.
Lu Bu. Minamoto no Tametomo. Nasu no Yoichi. Robin Hood (Although the classical Robin is a fiction, his character is probably a conflation of several real historical figures) Prithviraj Chauhan. Saxton Pope. Taishi Ci. Yue Fei. Zhou Tong (archer)
Atalanta (/ ˌ æ t ə ˈ l æ n t ə /; Greek: Ἀταλάντη, translit. Atalántē, lit. "equal in weight") is a heroine in Greek mythology.. There are two versions of the huntress Atalanta: one from Arcadia, [1] whose parents were Iasus and Clymene [2] [3] and who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts; [4] and the other from Boeotia, who is the ...
Chang'e. Chang'e (/ˈtʃɑːŋ.ə/ CHAHNG-ə; Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: Cháng'é), originally known as Heng'e (姮娥), is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Hou Yi, the great archer. Renowned by her beauty, Chang'e is also known for her ascending to the Moon with her pet Yu Tu, the Moon Rabbit and living in the Moon Palace (廣寒宮).
Mythological Greek archers (4 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Mythological archers" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Reconstruction of the late antique Hunting Amazons mosaic. The Amazons were a group or race of female warriors in Ancient Greek mythology. Most of them are only briefly named in one or two sources, either as companions of Penthesilea at the Trojan War, or as being killed by Heracles during his 12 labours.