Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De MulieribusThis study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their intelligence, initiative and courage. The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in addition to the original text and an English translation - an examination of both the content and form of De Mulieribus, particularly as a catalogue of women. The times, methods, and purposes of the anonymous author are also investigated. Commentary-essays on the individual women then follow. A wide variety of sources are utilized in order to sketch the fullest possible portrait of each of these lively women. This book, the very first study of De Mulieribus, is a useful introduction to a remarkable treatise. |
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ADM's Aeschines Amazons ancient anonymous author Arcesilaus Argeia Artemisia Aspasia Assyrian queen Atossa Babylon Babylonian Barca Battiad battle battlefield Brosius Carthaginians catalogue of women century BC courage Croesus Ctesias Cyrene Cyrus Darius daughter death Derceto described Dido Dido's Diodorus Egyptian Elissa eunuchs female FGrH FGTH figure goddess Greek Hellanicus Herodotean Herodotus heroines Hesiod Hippias historian History Homer husband Immerwahr 1966 inscription Jacoby Justin killed Lyde Lydian male married Massagetan Medes Menecles mention Mermerus mother Naqi'a Nereids Nicolaus Ninus Nitocris notice Onomaris perhaps Persian Persian king Persica Pheretime Pheretime's Philostratus Phoenicians Plutarch Polyaenus powerful Rhodogyne Rhodogyne's role rule ruler Sacae Sacian scholars Scythian seems Semiramis Sparethra story Stryangaeus Suda Suda s.v. suicide tale tells Thargelia throne Timaeus Tomyris warrior queen wife woman women of DM Xenophilus Xerxes Zarinaea δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν τὴν τῆς τὸν τοῦ τῶν