Cleopatra VI Philopator (January 69 BC - 12 August 30 BC), known in history as Cleopatra, was an ancient Greek queen and the last active queen of Ptolemaic Egypt. After her reign, Egypt became the province of the newly established Roman Empire. Cleopatra was an ancient Greek. He was a member of the Ptolemy dynasty, a Greek family of Macedonian origin who ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great during the Hellenistic period. Although she was efficient and demonic monarch, she was famous mainly because she managed to charm two of the strongest men of her time, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, but also for her beauty and tragic end. Thanks to her ambition and personal charm, she decisively influenced Roman politics in a decisive period and ended up representing, like no other woman in ancient times, the model of a fallen woman.
The woman during the Byzantine era ceased to be regarded as a child-giving machine, the purpose of which was to only give birth to children without having other rights as it was in previous archaic eras. However, the improvement in the situation of women does not mean at all there were then serious and great restrictions, which made the position of the woman of the upper classes difficult and the position of the woman of the inferior layers tragic. However, the Byzantine women were not considered unworthy to hold the highest post of the state simply because they were women. Indeed, four emperors ruled on their own - without having a husband - without any objection on account of their sex.
Kallipateira, daughter of the Olympic Champion of Rodios, was the first woman of antiquity to enter the sports area and attended the ancient Olympic Games. The regulations banned women from entering and attending gymnastics, otherwise being punished by death by precipitation from the rocky Mount Typoi. Kallipateira, wishing to admire her son Pesikrodos who struggled in the fight, took the courage and despised the relevant ban and threatened sentence, disguised as a trainer, entered and watched the fight. But she was betrayed by her excessive and justified enthusiasm for her son's victory. However, the death penalty was not imposed on her, as her family had made a series of Olympians (father, spouse, 3 siblings, son and nephew).
Women in ancient Sparta had a right of inheritance, unlike the women of ancient Athens whose property was managed by the husband or guardian. The female body was not a taboo issue in ancient Sparta, the women were well-dressed demonstrating their bodies as they circulated free as opposed to Athenians that were locked in the house and adorned with many jewels, which was not used by the Spartans. Still in Sparta women had great sexual freedoms, ie they could have extramarital relationships without any effect.
Theodora was the husband of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. She is one of the most famous women in world history and the most famous empress of Byzantium. Theodora ascended to the throne of Caesar, at all times had the privilege of sparking curiosity and irritating imagination, continuing until today to stir the interest of historical scholars, artists and readers. The influence of Theodora on the emperor's decisions was catalytic. In many cases, Justinian consulted his wife, as in the case of the purchase of public officials by officials
In ancient Rome, the legal position of a woman was characterized by the complete subordination of the father or brother and later of the husband to the authority. They had no legal capacity to sign contracts or wills or to testify as witnesses in courts. In the first thirty years of August, the women of the upper and wealthier class have a movement to claim liberties. They have been given the opportunity to manage their dowry, but this does not mean strengthening their position in the political system.
During the times of feudalism, the woman was considered as the property of the man. The woman treated for the work of the house. Marriages in particular in the higher classes were decided by parents for economic or political reasons without even taking into account the woman's opinion. The Knight has the right not only to abuse but to donate, to bequeath by will to send off and sell his wife until the 13th century. In the Middle Ages, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, were accused, tortured, convicted and executed horribly ! The class was a stereotype: cultivating spiritual and physical bonds with Satan, causing diseases and economic problems to other people, influencing the weather, etc. They considered witches to be "responsible" for all the evil that happened to people, and the only redemption was their death! In the 17th century, about one hundred thousand witches were burned in Germany.
Since the position of the woman has gone through difficulties, only in the time of the Enlightenment, thinkers and philosophers begin to uphold her rights. Despite the conflicting views on female nature, all Enlighteners have agreed to educate women either for proper transmission of cultural values, or for a broader goal. At the same time during the Ottoman domination, the Greek woman, as a husband and mother, was the masterpiece of the house, which profoundly shaped the children's soul, faith in religion, love in homeland, respect and generosity, distinctive trait in all the classes of the Greeks. With her example, he inspired heroism, contempt for the death and sacrifice of life, religion, homeland, freedom and honor. Collaborator and supporter of the man watched him in battles, brought him food, water, munitions. He shared the hardships and dangers of war. He fought at his side and, with his presence, he charmed the warriors.
Women are engaged in grain processing, storage and distribution and are distinguished in textiles. The position of women in harmony with the military character of Mycenaean society has begun to deteriorate. Some of the palace apartments for women were more cut off than the rest of the palace compared to the Minoan era.
Catherine II of Russia, the so-called Great , was an empress of Russia, of German origin. Her policy was closely linked to the rebirth of Greek life due to the Kuutsu-Kainartzis Treaty. New territorial expansion begins with Catherine II. After the first Russian-Turkish war in 1774, Russia acquired significant lands in the estuaries of the Dnieper River, Don, and in the Straits of Kerch. In 1783, it joins Balta, Crimea and Kuban. The second Russian-Turkish war ends with the acquisition of the coastal lane between Boug and the Dniester (1792). With all these conquests, Russia has stable access to the Black Sea. At the same time, the Poles give Russia to western Russia. Thus, in 1773 Russia acquired part of Belarus, the second part of Poland (1793), the provinces of Lithuania. Together with the third section, he was associated with Russia and the Duchy of Ireland.
Laskarina "Bouboulina" was a Greek heroine of the Greek Revolution of 1821, perhaps the most important. When the Greek Revolution began, she had formed her own expeditionary body of Spetses, whom he called "my brave lads". She had taken up arms, maintained and paid for the army on its own as she did with her ships and crews, which continued for many years and made her spend a lot of money in order to encircle the Turkish forts, Nafplio and Tripoli. So the first two years of the revolution had spent all its wealth.
The 19th century is characterized by the emergence of a progressive and highly reformed organized movement, feminism. The feminist movement was nothing more than the collective efforts of women to overcome the limits of the "private" space themselves and to enter equally with the man in the "public." Feminism as a social movement focused and focused notably in limiting and eliminating any racial inequality, in defending and promoting interests, rights, and wider women's issues in society. In Greece, Kalirois Parren, the publisher of the magazine "Ephimeris of the Lady", was the most important voice in expressing these claims. Since the end of the 19th century, women all over the world have begun to invade men's professions and sciences, to acquire voting rights and to claim a position in public and governmental offices
Florence Nightingale led the first official team of British military nurses to Turkey during the Crimean War, fought between Britain and Russia (1853-56). More soldiers died from disease than wounds in this conflict and Nightingale – as well as tending the sick – reported back to the army medical services on how to reduce avoidable deaths. Nicknamed ‘the Lady with the Lamp’ for the night rounds she made tending to the wounded and sick, Nightingale continued in her work after the war and was instrumental in establishing a permanent military nursing service and implementing improvements to the army medical services.
First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred within the 19th and early 20th century throughout the world especially in UK and USA . It focused on legal issues, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote) 1960- 1980 Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s.
Born in Warsaw, Curie studied physics at university in Paris where she met her future research collaborator and husband, Pierre. Together they identified two new elements: radium and polonium, named after her native Poland. After he died, she raised a small fortune in the US and Europe to fund laboratories and to develop cancer treatments.Marie Curie was a woman of action as well as enormous intellect. During the First World War, she helped to equip ambulances with x-ray equipment, and often drove them to the front line herself.Despite becoming ill from the radioactive materials she constantly handled, Curie never lost her determination to excel in the scientific career that she loved. Her memory is preserved by the cancer society that bears her name and continues to help terminally ill patients all over the world.
Lina Tsaldari was a Greek politician and was the first female minister to a Greek government in the mid-1950s. In 1956 and 1958 she was elected MP with the EPE ballot paper. From February 29, 1956 to March 5, 1958, he served as Minister of Social Welfare in the second government of Constantine Karamanlis. He died of a stroke one day before the 1981 parliamentary elections on October 17.
Eleni Skoura was the first Greek MP. She was born in Volos in 1896 where she completed her high school studies. From 1915 he settled in Thessaloniki. She studied vocal music and in 1950 she received her law degree, then lawyer in the same town as her lawyer, Dimitrios Skouras. On January 18, 1953, he was elected a deputy in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki with the "Hellenic Alarm" party. On 20 January 1953 he passed the threshold of the House. Eleni Skoura had developed a wealth of charitable and patriotic action, especially during the Greek-Italian war and the German occupation as President of the "Falangitissa Residence" and also of "The Fighter of the Soldier". In the summer of 1942, he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned with her husband and brother Apostolos Papachristou. Eleni Skoura was honored by King Paul with the Military Exclusive Merit Medal as well as with the Chief Brigadier of the Royal Order of Euphieia.
Earhart took up aviation in 1921, aged 24, and went on to break the women’s altitude record the following year when she rose to 14,000 feet. In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and over the next five years continued to break speed and flying records. In June 1937 she began a flight around the world, becoming the first person to fly from the Red Sea to India – she was reported missing on 2 July near Howland Island in the Pacific. Earhart’s disappearance is one of history’s unsolved mysteries and she was declared dead in absentia in 1939.
Mother Teresa, born in Albania, was a Roman Catholic nun who lived in India for most of her life. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity which attracted many sisters who took vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and free service to the poorest of the poor. The work that the order undertook, in over 130 countries, included managing homes for people who were dying, soup kitchens, orphanages and schools. Although criticised for her opposition to abortion, her charitable work changed the lives of many of the most vulnerable people in the world.
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American living in Montgomery, Alabama, challenged the race segregation that existed in parts of the US by refusing to give up her seat on a bus so that a white person could sit down. Her protest was supported by many other African Americans and sparked the civil rights movement which, in the 1960s, eventually won equal rights. Four years after her death in 2005, Barack Obama became the first African-American US president.
Britain’s first female prime minister came to power at an unsettled time in the country’s history, as it faced political disharmony and economic recession. Further trials, including the 1982 Falklands War and the conflict in Northern Ireland, helped to define her influential career.
Vassiliki Thanou-Christofilou is a Greek senior judicial and former prime minister of Greece, the first woman to hold office in the country. He was president of the Supreme Court from 1 July 2015 until 30 June 2017.
Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the early 1960s in the United States, and spread throughout the Western world and beyond. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s.
Third-wave feminism is an iteration of the feminist movement that began in the early 1990s United States and continued until the fourth wave began around 2012.féminine (which translates as female, or feminine writing).
Fourth-wave feminism began around 2012 and is associated with the use of social media. Key issues include the fight against street and workplace harassment, campus sexual assault and rape culture
Women stayed in their father and mother's home if they were unable to regulate domestic problems alone. One of the main features in Minoan Crete was the great freedom of women to participate in every manifestation of social life. They took part in all kinds of out-of-home activities, participated in dangerous events, hunted on hunting trips and in dance shows.
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