Women's Studies 102
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- Hatshepsut
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ruled Egypt for 15 years
daughter of Tuthmose I
name erased from records - Nefertiti
- "The Beautiful One Has Come", wife of Amenhotep IV
- Cleopatra
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ruled w/ her brother
committed suicide - Maat
- Egyptian goddess of law, justice, harmony
- Nut
- Egyptian goddess of sky, births other gods and pharoahs
- Hathor
- Egyptian goddess of love and war
- Isis
- goddess of Nile River, mother of Horus, shown with bird wings
- Esther
- saved Jews by marrying king of Persia
- Judith
- Jewish, cut head off a general
- Deborah
- Jewish tribal leader
- Miriam
- sister of Moses
- Pandora
- opened Pandora's box, parallel to Eve
- Penelope
- Odysseus' wife in Odyssey, faithfully waits for him, knits blanket and undoes progress
- sirens
- lure sailors with their songs
- Circe
- monster in Odyssey, turns men into swines
- Scylla and Charybdis
- sea monster and whirlpool in Odyssey
- Aphrodite
- Greek goddess; love, sex, beauty, virginity
- Artemis
- Greek goddess; hunt, moon, animals
- Athena
- Greek goddess; war, wisdom, farming, crafts; birthed from head of Zeus; her temple is the Parthenon
- Demeter
- Greek goddess of Earth; mother of Persephone
- Persephone
- daughter of Demeter, kidnapped by Hades
- Sappho
- female poet from Lesbos, love poetry
- Vestal Virgins
- priestesses to Vesta, served for 30 years, donated by parents
- Theodora
- Roman, wife of Justinian, was a courtesan
- Hypatia of Alexandria
- scientist, mathematician, philosopher; writings burned publicly
- Mary and Martha
- women in Jesus' parables; better to learn his teachings than to do chores
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- inherited land, married Louis VII, went along on Crusades, after annulment married Henry II, placed under house arrest until his death
- Hild of Whitby
- headed a double monastery
- Herrad of Alsace
- abbess who created first encyclopedia
- Hildegard of Bingen
- nun, had visions, catalogued herbs and diseases, musical composer
- Christine de Pisan
- French noble, supported her family as a writer, some books traditional, some books feminist, Europe's first feminist
- Enheduanna
- high prietess in Sumeria, first female poet in history
- Code of Hammurabi
- Sumeria/Mesopotamia
- Snake goddess
- held snakes, Minoan
- Hera/Here
- Zeus' consort, evolved from cow goddess
- Heterae
- Athenian courtesans, not Athenian-born
- Livia and Fulvia
- influential in Roman imperial households
- Dido
- queen of Carthage
- Iaia
- only female artist in Rome, painter
- Irene
- first queen in European history to rule in her own name, Byzantine empress