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Kubaba of Kish, the only queen on the Sumerian King List (reigned in the 25th century BC) Semiramis, the legendary queen of king Ninus, succeeding him to the throne of Assyria; Nitocris of Babylon, the ruling queen of Babylon described by Herodotus in his Histories; Queen Zidam – according to the legend of Bayajidda, she conquered Baghdad [135]
For most of the period from 286 to 480, the Roman Empire, though remaining a single polity, was administratively divided into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Through most of this period, the separated imperial courts had their own lines of succession, and as a result their own sequences of concurrent Roman empresses.
Moya K. Mason, Ancient Roman Women: A Look at their Lives. Essay on the lives of Roman women. "Wife-beating in Ancient Rome": an article by Joy Connolly in the TLS, April 9, 2008 "An etext version of: Ferrero, Guglielmo. "Women and Marriage in Ancient Rome." The Women of the Caesars. The Century Co.; New York, 1911.
Juno (English: / ˈ dʒ uː n oʊ / JOO-noh; Latin Iūnō) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state.She was equated to Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology and a goddess of love and marriage.
The Pergamene bequest became the new Roman province of Asia, and Roma's cult spread rapidly within it. [10] In contrast to her putative "Amazonian" Roman original, Greek coinage reduces the ferocity of her image, and depicts her in the "dignified and rather severe style" of a Greek goddess, often wearing a mural crown, or sometimes a Phrygian ...
Augusta was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and women of the imperial families. It was the feminine form of Augustus. In the third century, Augustae could also receive the titles of Mater Senatus ("Mother of the Senate"), Mater Castrorum ("Mother of the Camp"), and Mater Patriae ("Mother of the Fatherland"). The title implied the greatest prestige. [clarify] Augustae could ...
Ancient Greece Boadaceia The first queen of the legendary Kingdom of Atlantis in ancient Greek folk tradition. Basine: c. 438 Thuringia Saint Bridget Queen of Thuringia in the middle of the fifth century. Bathilde: c. 626 Burgundy and Neustria Theodora Anglo-Saxon of noble birth, Wife and Queen of Clovis II and then Queen regent to her son ...