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Artemis
Mythic, worshipped in ancient Greece, exact dates uncertainArtemis, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo, was the virgin goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and the wilderness. Worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in some... Read more
Barbara
Flourished circa A.D. 250, Asia MinorBarbara, a virgin martyr of the early church, converted to Christianity against the wishes of her pagan father. He took her to a Roman magistrate to be executed and was... Read more
Beruriah
Flourished 2nd century A.D., Palestine and Asia MinorBeruriah (Bruriah) is the only woman mentioned in the Talmud, the book of Jewish rabbinical law, as a sage. The wife of Rabbi Meir, she was said to have challenged... Read more
Julia Cameron
b. 1815, Calcutta; d. 1879, Kalutara, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]Julia Margaret Cameron is now considered one of the most significant portrait and genre photographers of the nineteenth century, though during her lifetime she was often criticized for lacking technical... Read more
Thecla
Perhaps legendary, reputedly b. Iconium, Turkey; d. Seleucia, Turkey, dates uncertainSaint Thecla is known from the Acts of Paul and Thecla, a noncanonical text which first appeared around A.D. 180. According to the text, she was a virgin from Iconium... Read more
Zenobia
Flourished circa A.D. 270, Palmyra, SyriaZenobia was the queen of Palmyra from A.D. 267 to 272 and she eventually expanded her kingdom into Asia Minor and Syria through military conquests. In 269, she declared herself... Read more
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