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Hypatia

  by Gina Luria Walker Hypatia 370–415 was a Greek scholar, daughter of a master teacher at the academy at the Great Library at Alexandria, Egypt. During her lifetime, Hypatia was renowned as a...

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Phillis Wheatley

by Gina Luria Walker  Phillis Wheatley (1753 –1784) A slave girl of about seven or eight years old arrived in Boston in 1761, aboard a slaver, The Phillis.[1] She was a captive from somewhere along the...

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Aretaphila

by Koren Whipp Aretaphila of Cyrene  (1st C BCE) lived in the reign of Mithridates VI, King of Pontus and Armenia Minor.  She was the daughter of Aeglator and wife of Phᴂdimus, both noblemen.[1]...

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Arete

by Eliana Greenberg and Koren Whipp Arete of Cyrene (late 5th or early 4th C. BCE)[1] Philosopher and teacher in Cyrene, Cyrene was founded around 630 BCE by Greek colonists from Thera, and it became...

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Egee

by Sam Yelton Egee (c. 1200 BCE) From the Greek Aegea.[1]  Although traditionally placed by Herodotus and others in the vicinity of the Black Sea, there are variations of the Amazon myth which located...

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