Warrior Queens and Generals: The Show Notes

Just for fun, here’s a clip from 300. Check out the Totally Authentic Abs!

AND! I hunted down a clip from the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, featuring Artemisia!

On to our sources. We basically can’t get through a day these days without giving mass credit to Adrienne Mayor’s Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World. It’s an incredible book:

Herodotus’ Histories (David Grene translation) was a major source for us:

As well as Polyaenus’ Stratagems (R. Shepherd translation):

James Romm’s Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire was also a great source for Cinna’s story:

For Arachidamia’s story, we relied on Plutarch’s Agis (Bernadotte Perrin translation):

Here’s a link to Plutarch’s Lycurgis, which has the Shirt Fox story.

Our trusty copy of the Historia Augusta (David Magie translation) came in handy for Zenobia:

Plus our dog-eared copy of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

Plus Zosimus’ New History:

And The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia for Mavia:

Finally we used Sozomen’s Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen: From AD 324 to AD 425 (Edward Walford translation) for the unfortunate death of Valens:

And here are some additional articles we got a kick out of:

Barry C. Jacobsen: Diadochi: Macedonian Game of Thrones (Part 6): Amazon Queens and Stolen Corpses

Alex Hanton: 10 Forgotten Female Warriors Who Shocked The Ancient World

Ben Thompson: Badass of the Week: Tomyris

Caroline L. Faulkner: Artemisia in Herodotus

Joshua J. Mark: Cynane (Cinna)

David Hernandez de la Fuente: Zenobia, the Rebel Queen Who Took On Rome. National Geographic.

Aimee Lamoureux: Meet Zenobia — The Warrior Queen Of The Middle East.

Also. We love Rejected Princesses! And unsurprisingly, they’ve covered two of these women.

Zenobia: Syria’s Rebel Queen

Tomyris: Head-Defiling Warrior Queen

Not to mention, they have (brace yourself) a MASTER LIST of historical women in combat.

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