Prominent Women in History
The Morrigan, the Phantom Queen, was the goddess of war, fate, death, priests and witches, revenge, violence, and the patron of servicemen and women.
Hourly History • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs (Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology)
Fourteen centuries later, Cleopatra was not so lucky. After three years of joint rule with her brother, she was deposed and sent into exile. Instead of taking this tamely, she assembled an army and turned to the most accessible powerful Roman for help.
Ron Druett • She Captains
in the mid-first century BC, Queen Cartimandua led a confederation of Celtic tribes which were loyal to Rome – until she was ousted by her ex-husband, Venutius. This ambivalence towards gender, providing the possibility for women to become leaders of men and to achieve the highest status in Celtic society,
Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
For a millennium, rivalries between and among Byzantine noble families propelled public life, with the kind of bloody factional maneuvering that makes the Tudors look like the Waltons in comparison.
Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political... See more
Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political... See more
Edmund White • The Misunderstood Byzantine Princess and Her Magnum Opus
Thus, she was the figure who bound the two ruling families together—again evincing the central role of women, even concubines, in early modern imperial politics.
Alan Mikhail • God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
Many other ancient Roman writers, including the politician Julius Caesar, were similarly fascinated — or terrified — by the women they encountered among the Celts. They were said to be able to take multiple husbands, divorce, inherit property, hold positions of power and fight in battles. Actually, two of the earliest recorded British rulers were... See more
Katie Jgln • No One Should Be Surprised That Celtic Britain Was Women-Centric
Below is a concise overview of biblical women who exercised spiritual authority, served as key teachers, or undertook leadership roles that parallel aspects of what might be considered pastoral ministry today. While women never served as formal priests in the Hebrew Scriptures’ Levitical system, several acted as prophetesses, leaders, and public
... See moreMaeve (Medb) is an exceptionally interesting deity, and also a historical figure as the Queen of Connaught.
Hourly History • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs (Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology)
The seventh century is outstanding for the number of women who played active, sometimes decisive roles in the fortunes of kingdoms, both earthly and spiritual. They are not to be underestimated. They had their own queenly agendas, engineering lines of patronage for their families, acting as brakes on hot-headed husbands, as brokers of deals, as
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