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- Before there was Wonder Woman, there were these 11 women warriors.
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Jun 2, 2017 · Fictional Wonder Woman has no shortage of precedents — history offers plenty of examples of women who were fierce fighters and highly skilled military leaders.
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The Amazons of Greek mythology and the real-life warrior women that led to this iconic modern-day Wonder Woman might, in fact, have roots in ancient Persia – modern-day Iran. It is no...
- Kimiya Shokoohi
Jun 5, 2017 · Clearly the Greeks, when they encountered the Scythians and their hugely successful warrior women, were captivated, and somewhere along the way, the myth of a woman-only warrior society...
- JR Thorpe
Nov 7, 2021 · These powerful female fighters warred against the patriarchy through their physical and mental strength and ultimately showed that women are just as capable of leading armies and nations as men are. What’s more, women warriors can often do it better. Before there was Wonder Woman, there were these 11 women warriors. Women Warriors Joan of Arc
- Caroline Redmond
- Fu Hao
- Tomyris
- Artemisia I of Caria
- Cynane
- & 6. Olympias and Eurydice
- Queen Teuta
- Boudicca
- Triệu Thị Trinh
- Zenobia
Lady Fu Hao was one of the 60 wives of Emperor Wu Ding of ancient China’s Shang Dynasty. She broke with tradition by serving as both a high priestess and military general. According to inscriptions on oracle bones from the time, Fu Hao led many military campaigns, commanded 13,000 soldiers and was considered the most powerful military leaders of he...
Tomyris was the Queen of the Massaegetae, a confederation of nomadic tribes that lived east of the Caspian Sea. She ruled during the 6th century BC and is most famous for the vengeful war she waged against the Persian king, Cyrus the Great. Initially the war did not go well for Tomyris and the Massaegetae. Cyrus destroyed their army and Tomyris’ so...
The Ancient Greek Queen of Halicarnassus, Artemisia ruled during the late 5thcentury BC. She was an ally to the King of Persia, Xerxes I, and fought for him during the second Persian invasion of Greece, personally commanding 5 ships at the Battle of Salamis. Herodotus writes that she was a decisive and intelligent, albeit ruthless strategist. Accor...
Cynane was the daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and his first wife, the Illyrian Princess Audata. She was also the half-sister of Alexander the Great. Audata raised Cynane in the Illyrian tradition, training her in the arts of war and turning her into an exceptional fighter – so much so that her skill on the battlefield became famed throughout...
The mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias was one of the most remarkable women in antiquity. She was a princess of the most powerful tribe in Epirus (a region now divided between northwest Greece and southern Albania) and her family claimed descent from Achilles. Despite this impressive claim, many Greeks considered her home kingdom to be semi-ba...
Teuta was the Queen of the Ardiaei tribe in Illyria during the late third century BC. In 230 BC, she was acting as regent for her infant stepson when a Roman embassy arrived at her court to mediate concerns about Illyrian expansion along the Adriatic shoreline. During the meeting however, one of the Roman delegates lost his temper and began to shou...
Queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe, Boudicca led an uprising against the forces of the Roman Empire in Britain after the Romans ignored her husband Prasutagus’ will, which left rule of his kingdom to both Rome and his daughters. Upon Prasutagus’ death, the Romans seized control, flogged Boudicca and Roman soldiers raped her daughters. Boudicca...
Commonly referred to as Lady Triệu, this warrior of 3rdcentury Vietnam temporarily freed her homeland from Chinese rule. That is according to traditional Vietnamese sources at least, which also state that she was 9 feet tall with 3-foot breasts that she tied behind her back during battle. She usually fought while riding an elephant. Chinese histori...
The Queen of Syria’s Palmyrene Empire from 267 AD, Zenobia conquered Egypt from the Romans only 2 years into her reign. Her empire only lasted a short while longer, however, as the Roman Emperor Aurelian defeated her in 271, taking her back to Rome where she — depending on which account you believe — either died shortly thereafter or married a Roma...
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Wonder Woman Historia: the Amazons begins with seven Greek goddesses-Hestia, Artemis, Demeter, Hecate, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera-demanding that all mortal men be punished for abusing women, only for their request to be turned down by the womanizing Zeus. Despite the Amazons being her own idea, Hera does not join the other goddesses as they ...
Apr 15, 2013 · Wonder Woman was a wartime invention, after all: she debuted in December 1941, the same month as Pearl Harbor. As one of the film's featured scholars explains, she began back on Paradise Island...
