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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
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum