Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello ("Treatise on Women Distinguished in Wars"; Greek: , "Women wise and brave in the art of war") is a short ancient Greek work by an anonymous author,Gera, Deborah (1997). Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus. E.J. Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands. p. 4. . which discusses fourteen famous ancient women, of whom one is not otherwise attested. The treatise is preserved as part of a 12th- or 13th-Century manuscript in the Laurentian Library in Florence, Codex Laurentianus 56-1.
Despite the title, not all of the women discussed are warriors, and only a few are portrayed as skilled military strategists. It was written near the end of the second or the beginning of the first century BCE.Holloway, Steven Winford. Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible, p.325 Deborah Gera has suggested, however, that it was written by Pamphile of Epidaurus during the 1st century AD.
It is a list of ancient women, four Greek and ten barbarian, and contains the following individuals: 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
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Text of Tractatus de Mulieribus at archive.org