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Medea, based on "The Flight of Medea" Calyx-Krater (ca. 400 B.C.)

Nephthys is a funerary goddess with a minor role in the Osiris myth. She is the daughter of Nut and Geb and the sister of Isis, Osiris and Seth. She is married to Seth and has one child, the jackal headed God Anubis.

Another collection of women from history! Line One: - Lucilla; sister of the Emperor Domitian, incredibly politically savvy and plotted against him - Cleopatra Selene; the only child of Cleopatra to survive to adulthood - Bà Triệu; A Vietnamese warrior who resisted Chinese rule - Eleanor of Aquitaine; Queen of France and England - Nefertari; favourite wife of Pharaoh Ramses II with an elaborate tomb in the Valley of the Queens - Mary Stuart; Queen of Scotland and rival to Elizabeth I Line Two: - Ahhotep; Ancient Egyptian Queen and Co-Regent believed to have been involved in military affairs - Octavia Minor; Sister of the Emperor Augustus - Mary I; Queen of England in the Tudor Dynasty - Lucrazia Borgia; Part of...

Ahhotep was the Co-Regent for her son Ahmose and assisted in the military campaign to expell the occupying Hyksos

Neith was the Ancient Egyptian Goddess associated with the Military and creation. She is often depcited wearing red crown of Lower Egypt.

Amun Ra

Eurydice

Anne Neville

Three Horn

I have just finished reading about Medusa. This version of her is inspired by a Terracotta pelike attributed to Polygnotos 450–440 B.C. which depicts a sleeping winged Medusa being beheaded by the demi-God Perseus (and aided by Athena).

Margaret Beaufort

Catherine de Medici

Crocodile God symbolic of Pharaonic might

Circe

Anastasia

Cartimandua

Marilyn Monroe

Seth

Djoser

Anne Boleyn

Aspasia

An Ancient Roman aristocrat from the late Republic who made a number of marriages to high profile Roman men. She had an active role in Roman politics and the Perusine War.

Meritneith Sobekneferu Hatshepsut Nefertiti Twosret Cleopatra VII

Twosret

Sobekneferu

Meritneith

Julius Caesar

Thutmose III

Louis XIV

Centre: Augustus Top Left: Tiberius Top Right: Caligula Bottom Left: Claudius Bottom Right: Nero

Tiberius

Ariadne

Cleopatra Selene

Octavia the Younger

Livia Drusilla is in a lot of ways, the archetype of the Disney Villain evil stepmother trope. She is maligned time and time again, by the ancient sources (who, to be fair, seemed to hate every powerful woman that cropped up in the Julio-Claudian Dynasty) and in modern media, particularly Robert Graves novel and the 1970's mini series I, Claudius. (Its ok though, she has the best lines). These archaic interpretations aside, Livia has such an interesting life, here are some facts: - She was born into a wealthy family and, as was expected of all young Roman Patrician women, was married in her mid teens to a man of her fathers choice. - The men in her family and her first husband weren't the most politically savvy. As a result, Liv...

What do we know about Kiya? Honestly, not a lot. For a while there, she was the strongest contender for the identify of the mother of Tutankhamun (King Tuts mummy) however, recent archaeological discoveries, new interpretations and DNA analysis have suggested this idea isn't a strong hypothesis. So what do we know? We know that Kiya was one of the wives of the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten from 18th Dynasty Ancient Egypt. We know that she was regarded as one of his favourite wives and spent most of her lifetime residing in the Northern Palace in the city Akhetaten (known now as Tell el-Amarna) and mention of her disappears some time around Year 11 of Akhenaten's reign. With this in mind, we can now move onto what we think we know a...