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Female Warrior
Jul 19, 2020 • By Vladislav Tchakarov , BA History
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While war history focuses on men, many courageous women warriors have had significant political and historical impact despite the laws and obstacles that tried to silence them.
The archetype of the beautiful warrior is firmly rooted in world culture. We see them in movies, we see them in books but we know very little of the great women warriors that lived thousands of years before our time. 
History remembers not one or two great men who won memorable victories on the battlefield. However, there are also women who have become legendary because of their incredible courage and determination in battle. 
From Europe through Africa to Asia, there have been women who left their mark in history despite the laws and common ancient beliefs that women should not interfere with power and politics. Here are 8 of the greatest women warriors of the Ancient world. 
The Trung sisters are national heroines in Vietnam. The pair led an uprising in the first century AD to overthrow the Chinese slavery which had continued for over a thousand years. It all began after the husband of the elder sister, Trung Trac, was assassinated. 
Her husband was part of a plot to overthrow the Chinese and paid the price with his life. From then on, his wife and her sister took it upon themselves to start the uprising and free the nation of their enslavers.
Trung Trac, along with her younger sister Nhi, quickly assembled an army consisting mainly of women warriors, and in a few weeks expelled the Chinese from the expanses of their native land. Later on, her armies were joined by the forces of freed lords along the way but there was one curious detail – it is said that all men were dressed as women warriors as a sign of respect. 
The armies of the Trung sisters successfully crushed the Chinese legions and established a short-lived kingdom in North and Central Vietnam. Legend has it that they were fearless warriors. It is said that they entered the battles completely naked to embarrass the enemy soldiers. 
Eventually, after nearly two decades of fighting with China, their kingdom was unfortunately crushed. The sisters committed suicide so as not to be captured alive, which was the dream of the Chinese emperor.
Artemisia I was the queen of Halicarnassus around the end of the 5 th century BC. It was a city of the Dorian Greeks and Carians in the Achaemenid satrapy, Caria and Kos. When the death of her husband came, she took over and was distinguished by courage and heroism.
Artemisia was the only one of all commanders who advised the Persian king Xerxes not to engage the Greeks in battle at sea. Despite her advice, she took part in the Battle of Salamis during the second invasion of Greece in September 480 BC and fought on the side of the Persians. Of the women warriors, she was the only one to command an army during this war and had a total of 5 ships under her command. 
Xerxes, watching the battle from the distant hills, is said to have been proud of the bravery of Artemisia. According to Herodotus, Xerxes said these famous lines: “My men became women, and women became men.” In fact, it is said that Artemisia was Xerxes’ most favored commander during his reign. 
Later on, Artemisia was given the task of caring for the sons of Xerxes I in Ephesus. In return, she received favorable terms from the alliance with the Persians.
In 1500 BC, the Hyksos invaded ancient Egypt. They settled down in the region of Nile’s delta and later dominated the surrounding territories which led to an economic decline for Egypt. 
Queen Ahhotep’s brother and husband, Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao, was executed by the tribes but since there was no heir of age to sit on the throne, Ahhotep became queen regent of her son Ahmose I who, allegedly, was not more than 3 years old.  
In addition to ruling Egypt , she personally gathered her husband’s soldiers to fight the Hyksos. After this feat, she was rewarded with military orders, only given to the highest Egyptian generals. As you probably guessed, such titles were rarely given to women warriors in ancient times, no matter the country or culture. 
Ahhotep died at the age of about 90 and was buried with great honors . Historians often claim that Ahhotep paved the way for the future great female leaders of Egypt such as Hatshepsut and Nefertiti. 
Fu Hao remained known in history as the first female general in China. She was one of the many wives of Emperor Wu Ding who broke the ancient Chinese traditions. In the ages before her rule, women of her status served only as high priestesses, and there were no women warriors and military leaders
Nevertheless, she is known to have controlled an incredible army of over 13 000 troops and is said to have won countless battles. Ancient inscriptions tell that she was the greatest military leader in her time. 
When she died, the emperor buried her in a magnificent tomb which was discovered in 1975 and is open for visitors in Yinxu. Besides the hundreds of jewels and precious items found in the tomb , there were over a hundred weapons that are unusual for a woman’s grave and further prove her military status. 
Zenobia was the third queen of Palmyra. She governed the country as regent of her son Vaballathus between 267 and 272.
She waged a military campaign and conquered much of Syria and Asia Minor, hoping to retain these territories by maneuvering between the Roman Empire and the Sasanian Empire. She suppressed an uprising in Egypt and declared herself the queen of Egypt by claiming to be an heiress of Cleopatra . 
In the end, the Roman emperor Aurelian began a campaign against her forces and took over her kingdom in 272. Zenobia was captured during the year. She was taken to Rome in a gold chain. 
There are various theories about her fate. Some believe that she died of starvation or was executed. However, according to most historians, Aurelian showed kindness to her and allowed her to spend the rest of her days in a villa in Tibur.
While the last theory is possible, Zenobia is known to have died just two years after her capture at the age of 34. Although the lifespan of people in the ancient world was shorter, it is highly unlikely that she died of natural causes at this young age. 
Olympias , one of the seven wives of Phillip II of Macedonia, is often regarded as a terrible person by historians. She was ruthless, violent, and ambitious but can she compare to her husband and son, Alexander the Great , who stood behind the deaths of countless souls. 
The truth we believe in is that Olympias is one of the greatest women warriors and leaders in Ancient history. Defying most major Greek laws, she was actively participating in the politics of the Greek peninsula . Not to mention that she gave birth and raised one of the greatest rulers in history. 
Now that you have a little bit of insight on Olympias, who is Eurydice and why did we put them side by side? 

As you can probably guess, Phillip II had many children. Adea Eurydice was the daughter of one of his daughters from another mother, Cynnane, or in other words, his granddaughter. 
Many years later, she would have a grand role in the legendary Wars of the Diadochi that were fought between the generals of Alexander the Great after his passing. The purpose of this civil war was the throne. 
Olympias was alive at the time of Alexander’s death in 323 BC . and she became one of the key players in the following war for succession. 
Olympias and Eurydice had no love for each other prior to the conflict, but the climax in their relationship came when Olympias invaded Macedonia in 317 BC with the idea to reclaim the throne, and she was confronted by Eurydice’s armies. 
Not only did this conflict change history as it was the first that had two armies, led by women warriors, face each other in Greek history but the battle ended without a single death. 
As you may have heard, Alexander the Great was loved by his people and foremost, by his soldiers. As soon as Eurydice’s armies saw that it was Olympias who they were fighting against, they defected and joined the forces of the mother of their beloved leader. 
Eurydice was captured along with her husband, Philip Arrhidaeus, and was kept in miserable conditions before Olympias ordered Philip to be murdered in front of his wife’s eyes. 
It was on Christmas day in 317 BC. when Olympias gave her hostage a choice of death – she was to be killed by the sword, hanging, or poison. Her choice was the noose. 
Despite her victory, Olympias ruled for not more than a few months before Macedonia was overrun by another one of Alexander’s generals – Cassander. She was captured and soon murdered in revenge by people who despised her. 
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By Vladislav Tchakarov BA History Vladislav Tchakarov is a History student at Sofia University in Bulgaria and a contributing writer at TheCollector. Originally from Bulgaria, he moved to the Netherlands to work and study Business Management before realizing that his passion for history is too great which lead to his return to Bulgaria and the beginning of his History studies.


Patti Wigington is a pagan author, educator, and licensed clergy. She is the author of Daily Spellbook for the Good Witch, Wicca Practical Magic and The Daily Spell Journal.


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Throughout history, women have fought side by side with the male warriors in their lives—and many of these strong women have become great warrior queens and rulers on their own right. From Boudicca and Zenobia to Queen Elizabeth I and Æthelflæd of Mercia, let's take a look at some of the mightiest female warrior rulers and queens you should know.


Boudicca, also known as Boadicea, was a queen of the Iceni tribe in Britain, and led open rebellions against invading Roman forces.


Around 60 C.E., Boudicca's husband, Prausutagus, died. He had been an ally of the Roman empire, and in his will, left his entire kingdom to be split jointly between his two daughters and the Roman emperor Nero, in the hopes that this would keep his family and the Iceni safe. Instead, the plan spectacularly backfired.


Roman centurions moved into Iceni territory, near present-day Norfolk, and terrorized the Iceni. Villages were burned to the ground, large estates were confiscated, Boudicca herself was publicly flogged, and her daughters were raped by Roman soldiers .


Under Boudicca's leadership, the Iceni rose up in rebellion, joining forces with several neighboring tribes. Tacitus writes that she declared war on General Suetonius, and told the tribes,


Boudicca's forces burned Roman settlements of Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium, now St. Albans, and Londonium, which is modern London. Her army massacred 70,000 supporters of Rome in the process. Eventually, she was defeated by Suetonius, and rather than surrender, took her own life by drinking poison.


There is no record of what became of Boudicca's daughters, but a statue of them with their mother was erected in the 19th century at Westminster Bridge.


Zenobia, who lived in the third century C.E., was the wife of King Odaenathus of Palmyra in what is now Syria. When the king and his eldest son were assassinated, Queen Zenobia stepped in as Regent to her 10-year-old son, Vaballathus. Despite her late husband's allegiance to the Roman Empire, Zenobia decided that Palmyra needed to be an independent state.


In 270, Zenobia organized her armies, and began conquering the rest of Syria before moving on to invade Egypt and parts of Asia. Finally, she announced that Palmyra was seceding from Rome, and declared herself empress. Soon, her empire included a diverse range of people, cultures, and religious groups.


The Roman Emperor Aurelian marched east with his army to take back formerly Roman provinces from Zenobia, and she fled for Persia. However, she was captured by Aurelian's men before she could escape. Historians are unclear on what became of her after that; some believe that Zenobia died as she was being escorted back to Rome, others maintain that she was paraded in Aurelian's triumphal procession. Regardless, she is still seen as a hero and freedom fighter who stood up to oppression.


Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae was the ruler of a nomadic Asian tribe, and the widow of a dead king. Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, decided he wanted to marry Tomyris by force, in order to get his hands on her land—and that worked out for him, at first. Cyrus got the Massagetae drunk at a huge banquet, and then attacked, and his forces saw a sweeping victory.


Tomyris decided she couldn't possibly marry him after such treachery, so she challenged Cyrus to a second battle. This time, the Persians were slaughtered by the thousands, and Cyrus the Great was among the casualties. According to Herodotus , Tomyris had Cyrus beheaded and crucified; she may have also ordered his head stuffed into a wine barrel full of blood, and sent back to Persia as a warning.


In the fourth century, Roman Emperor Valens decided he needed more troops to fight on his behalf in the east, so he demanded auxiliaries from the area that is now the Levant. Queen Mavia, also called Mawiya, was the widow of al-Hawari, king of a nomadic tribe, and she wasn't interested in sending her people off to fight on Rome's behalf.


Much like Zenobia, she launched a revolt against the Roman Empire, and defeated Roman armies in Arabia, Palestine, and the fringes of Egypt. Because Mavia's people were nomadic desert-dwellers who excelled in guerrilla warfare, the Romans simply couldn't fight them; the terrain was virtually impossible to navigate. Mavia herself led her armies into battle, and used a combination of traditional fighting blended with Roman tactics.


Eventually, Mavia managed to convince the Romans to sign a truce agreement, leaving her people alone. Socrates notes that as a peace offering, she married her daughter to the commander of the Roman army.


Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was an instrumental leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. When her husband, the ruler of Jhansi, died and left her a widow in her early twenties, the British overlords decided to annex the state. Rani Lakshmibai was given a chest of rupees and told to leave the palace, but she swore she would never abandon her beloved Jhansi.


Instead, she joined a band of Indian rebels, and soon emerged as their leader against British occupying forces. A temporary truce took place, but ended when some of Lakshmibai's troops massacred a garrison full of British soldiers, their wives, and children.


Lakshmibai's army fought the British for two years, but in 1858, a Hussar regiment attacked Indian forces, killing five thousand men. According to witnesses, Rani Lakshmibai herself fought dressed as a man and wielding a saber before she was cut down. After her death, her body was burned in a huge ceremony, and she is remembered as a hero of India.


Æthelflæd of Mercia was the daughter of King Alfred the Great, and the wife of King Æthelred. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle details her adventures and accomplishments. 


When Æthelred became old and unwell, his wife stepped up to the plate. According to the Chronicle, a group of Norse Vikings wanted to settle near Chester; because the king was ill, instead they appealed to Æthelflæd for permission. She granted it, on the condition that they live peacefully. Eventually, the new neighbors joined forces with Danish invaders and attempted to conquer Chester. They were unsuccessful because the town was one of many that Æthelflæd had ordered fortified.


After her husband's death, Æthelflæd helped to defend Mercia from not only the Vikings, but also raiding parties from Wales and Ireland. At one point, she personally led an army of Mercians , Scots, and Northumbrian supporters to Wales, where she kidnapped a queen in order to force the king's obedience.


Elizabeth I became queen following the death of her half sister, Mary Tudor, and spent more than four decades ruling Britain. She was highly educated and spoke several languages, and was politically savvy, in affairs both foreign and domestic.


In preparation for the attack by the Spanish Armada, Elizabeth donned armor—implying she was ready to fight for her people—and rode out to meet her army at Tilbury. She told the soldiers ,


“The king's dual role has mirrored that of the royal Goddess herself, both as symbolic progenetrix of the kingdom at its center and a fearsome female warrior at its periphery.”
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