Scheherazade
Storytelling queen from One Thousand Nights and a Night
Category Archives: Legend
Women whose story is generally unbelievable due to certain elements, though it may be rooted in a grain of truth
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Hua Mulan
China This entry was originally published in the World History Encyclopedia and was written by Joshua J. Mark. It is shared in line with the Encyclopedia’s policies under the Creative […]
Kaasteen
The girl who called a glacier
Procne and Philomela
Sister princesses of Greek myth
Deirdre
Tragic protagonist of the early medieval Ulster cycle
Camilla, Queen of the Volscians
Amazon queen of the Volscians
Atalanta
Greece The following is excerpted from “Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era,” by Ellen C. Clayton (Mrs. Needham), published in […]
Nafanua
Nafanua was an ancient Samoan war goddess and ali’i, or chief. Her peaceful conduct of politics influenced the modern used of the fono communal meeting place for the fa’amatai system of decentralised government.
Draupadi
India This article, written by Naomi Appleton, has been republished with permission from the Dangerous Women Project, created by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University […]
Semiramis
Legendary queen of Assyria