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Dibyendu Banerjee
12/02/2025
Born around 1098 in Germany, Hildegard of Bingen was a Christian mystic, visionary, and a woman of many talents and great influence.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
26/12/2024
Famous for her role in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, Artemisia I was the queen of the Anatolian region of Caria, in modern-day Bodrum, Turkey.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
15/11/2024
Generally regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets of ancient Greece, Sappho was born probably around 620 BC.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/09/2024
Regarded by several scholars as one of the most important women in the history of fifth-century Classical Athens, Aspasia of Miletus was a philosopher and t ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/08/2024
It is interesting to note that Boudica, the name of the famous ancient warrior queen, is derived from the ancient British word bouda, which means victory.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/06/2024
Born on the 3rd of August 1486 in Rome, Imperia Cognati was a Roman courtesan, considered the first celebrity of the class of courtesans.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/05/2024
Telesilla, an ancient lyric poet of the 5th century from the Peloponnesian city of Argos, was one of the great Nine Female Lyric Poets of ancient Greece.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
16/04/2024
Hypatia, a philosopher, astronomer and mathematician of the ancient world, was born in a man’s world at the end of the 4th century.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
03/03/2024
According to Zosimos of Panopolis, Mary the Prophetess or Maria Prophetissima, who lived in Alexandria between the first and third centuries AD, was the fir ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/01/2024
Jael or Yael, who played an important role in defeating Israel’s enemy, committed an act of treachery, as she assassinated Sisera by hammering a tent ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/12/2023
Tapputi Belatekallim had the knowledge of chemistry to develop formulas, techniques and tools for preparing perfume in Assur, one of the cities in Mesopotamia.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/11/2023
Long ago in the city of Corinth in Ancient Greece, a young maid named Dibutades marked the contour of her lover’s head on a wall to preserve his ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/10/2023
Whether a myth or based on fact, Agnodice is regarded as the first female gynaecologist of the world.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/08/2023
Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess, who lived in the 23rd century BC in ancient Mesopotamia, is considered to be the first poet and named author of either gender
