Telesilla

female
LGBT history in Greece, AncientGreekwomenwriter, from Peloponnese, Bergk, Women in ancient Greek warfare, Cleomenes, king of Sparta…writer, ancient greek, greek
Telesilla, Greek poetess, a native of Argos and was named one of the nine lyric muses. According to the traditional story, when Cleomenes, king of...

Nossis

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, poet, ancient greek, epigram, Locri
Nossis was an ancient Greek epigrammist, c. 300 BCE, who lived in Locri. Her epigrams were inspired by Sappho.

Elephantis

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, Erotica writer, roman empire, roman, Capri, ancient greece…greek, ancient greek
Elephantis was a Greek poetess apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual. Her works have not survived....

Praxilla

female
Greek Lyric, Lyricist, AncientGreekwomenwriter, adonis, loeb classical library, composer…ancient greek, ancient greece, greek
Praxilla, of Sicyon, was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC. According to Athenaeus (xv. 694), she was famous as a composer of "scolia"...
Anyte Of Tegea

Anyte Of Tegea

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, Doric, ancient greek, epigram, arcadia, epitaph…Greek Anthology
Anyte of Tegea (fl. early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet, admired by her contemporaries and later generations for her charming epigrams and...
Diotima Of Mantinea

Diotima Of Mantinea

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, All, diotima, symposium, philosopher, mantinea…ancient greek
Diotima of Mantinea plays an important role in Plato's Symposium. Since our only source concerning her is Plato, we cannot be certain whether she...

Aesara

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, philosopher, soul, pythagorean, Pythagoreans, Human Nature
Aesara of Lucania was a late Pythagorean philosopher. Only a fragment of her book on human nature exists but it shows an intuitive natural law...
Sappho

Sappho

female
poet, Lesbos, Eresos, Aeolic Greek, Lesbos Island, from the North Aegean…ancient greece, AncientGreekwomenwriter, writer, ancient greek, Attic Greek
Sappho (Attic Greek "', Aeolic Greek "') was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is...

Erinna

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, from the South Aegean, eusebius, rhodes, Greek Anthology, Doric Greek…Aeolic Greek, ancient greece, greek, ancient greek
Erinna (Greek:) was a Greek poet, a contemporary and friend of Sappho, a native of Rhodes or the adjacent island of Telos or even possibly Tenos,...
Aspasia

Aspasia

female
AncientGreekwomenwriter, Milesian, famous, harlot, greek, athenian…ancient greece, Ancient Athenian
Aspasia (ca. 470 BC -ca. 400 BC, Greek:) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little...