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The women attacked both the Romans and the Ambrones who tried to desert. [143] 102/101 BCE [144] – General Marius of the Romans fought the Teutonic Cimbrians. Cimbrian women accompanied their men into war, created a line in battle with their wagons and fought with poles and lances, [145] as well as staves, stones, and swords. [146]
Banquo. Lord Banquo / ˈbæŋkwoʊ /, the Thane of Lochaber, is a semi-historical character in William Shakespeare 's 1606 play Macbeth. In the play, he is at first an ally of Macbeth (both are generals in the King's army) and they meet the Three Witches together. After prophesying that Macbeth will become king, the witches tell Banquo that he ...
Penelope ( / pəˈnɛləpi / [ 1] pə-NEL-ə-pee; Ancient Greek: Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) [ 2] is a character in Homer 's Odyssey. She was the queen of Ithaca and was the daughter of Spartan king Icarius and Asterodia. [ 3] Penelope is known for her fidelity to her husband Odysseus, despite the ...
The Odyssey ( / ˈɒdɪsi /; [ 1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized : Odýsseia) [ 2][ 3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus ...
Nausicaa ( / nɔːˈsɪkɪə /; [ 1][ 2] Ancient Greek: Ναυσικάα, romanized : Nausikáa [nau̯sikáaː], or Ναυσικᾶ, Nausikâ, [nau̯sikâː] ), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer 's Odyssey. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name means "burner of ships" ( ναῦς ...
In The World of Odysseus, Finley presents a picture of the society represented by the Iliad and the Odyssey, avoiding the question as "beside the point that the narrative is a collection of fictions from beginning to end". [14]: 9 Finley was in a minority when his World of Odysseus first appeared in 1954. With the understanding that war was the ...
Aspasia. Marble portrait herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. [ 1] Aspasia ( / æˈspeɪʒ ( i) ə, - ziə, - ʃə /; [ 2] Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek: [aspasíaː]; c. 470 – after 428 BC [ a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with ...
Mary Paik Lee (August 17, 1900 [ 2] – February 14, 1995 [ 3]) was a Korean American writer most known for her autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. She was born in the Korean Empire and moved to the United States in 1905, eventually settling in Riverside, California in 1906. Over the course of her life, Lee, her ...