Tractatus_De_Mulieribus

<i>Tractatus de mulieribus</i>

Tractatus de mulieribus

Ancient Greek work discussing famous women in antiquity

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] 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.[4] Deborah Gera has suggested, however, that it was written by Pamphile of Epidaurus during the 1st century AD.[2][5]

It is a list of individual ancient women, and contains the following individuals:[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Gera, Deborah (1997). Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus. E.J. Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands. p. 4. ISBN 90-04-10665-0.
  2. [2]
    Gourevitch, Danielle (1998). "Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera". L'Antiquité Classique. 67: 413.
  3. [3]
    Lightfoot, J.L. (1998). "Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera". Mnemosyne. 51 (2): 240.
  4. [4]
    Holloway, Steven Winford. Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible, p.325
  5. [5]
    Gera, Debora (1997). Warrior Women. The anonymous Tractatus de mulieribus. Leiden: Brill. pp. 60–61.

Text

Text of Tractatus de Mulieribus at archive.org


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