Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello ("Treatise on Women Distinguished in Wars"; Greek: Γυναῖκες ἐν πολεμικοῖς συνεταὶ καὶ ἀνδρεῖαι, "Women wise and brave in the art of war") is a short ancient Greek work by an anonymous author,[1] which discusses fourteen famous ancient women,[2] of whom one is not otherwise attested.[3] The treatise is preserved as part of a 12th- or 13th-Century manuscript in the Laurentian Library in Florence, Codex Laurentianus 56-1.[4]
Despite the title, not all of the women discussed are warriors, and only a few are portrayed as skilled military strategists.[3] It was written near the end of the second or the beginning of the first century BCE.[5] Deborah Gera has suggested, however, that it was written by Pamphile of Epidaurus during the 1st century AD.[2][6]
It is a list of ancient women, four Greek and ten barbarian,[7] and contains the following individuals:[1]
- Semiramis
- Zarinaea
- Nitocris the Egyptian
- Nitocris the Babylonian
- Argeia
- Dido
- Atossa
- Rhodogune of Parthia
- Lyde (Woman who tames her son Alyattes by fasting)
- Pheretime
- Thargelia
- Tomyris
- Artemisia I of Caria
- Onomaris
References
edit- ^ a b Gera, Deborah (1997). Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus. E.J. Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands. p. 4. ISBN 90-04-10665-0.
- ^ a b Gourevitch, Danielle (1998). "Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera". L'Antiquité Classique. 67: 413.
- ^ a b Lightfoot, J.L. (1998). "Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera". Mnemosyne. 51 (2): 240.
- ^ Brodersen, Kai (2010). "Mannhafte Frauen bei Polyaenus und beim Anonymus de Mulieribus". In Broderson, Kai (ed.). Polyaenus. Verlag Antike. p. 149.
- ^ Holloway, Steven Winford. Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible, p.325
- ^ Gera, Debora (1997). Warrior Women. The anonymous Tractatus de mulieribus. Leiden: Brill. pp. 60–61.
- ^ McLeod, Glenda (1991). "A Fickle Thing is Woman". Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance. University of Michigan Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780472102068. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
Text
editText of Tractatus de Mulieribus at archive.org
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