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Amazon
(Legendary)According to Greek mythology, the Amazons were warrior women living northeast of Ancient Greece during the later Bronze Age, between approximately 1900 and 1200 B.C. The source of the Amazonian... Read more
Aspasia
(b. circa 470 B.C., Miletus, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey); d. circa 410 B.C., location unknown)Aspasia of Miletus was a scholar and philosopher whose intellectual influence distinguished her in Athenian culture, which treated women as second-class citizens during the 5th century B.C. She used her... Read more
Sappho
(b. 625 B.C., Island of Lesbos; d. 570 B.C., location unknown)Called the Tenth Muse by Plato, Sappho was a prolific poet of ancient Greece. She innovated the form of poetry through her first-person narration (instead of writing from the vantage... Read more
Sophia
(Mythic)The goddess of wisdom has appeared in nearly every society in a variety of different manifestations, including Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom and military victory; Minerva, the Roman goddess... Read more
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