Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot (69 page)

Mawia, Syrian Queen,
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Medb (Maeve), Irish Queen,
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Medea (mythical figure),
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Medici, Giovanni de’,
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Meir, Golda,
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My Life
,
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Melville, Sir James,
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Mendes de Vasconcelos, João,
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Mendoza, Fray Inigo de,
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Metternich, Clemens, Prince,
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Miguel, Prince (son of Queen Maria),
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Milton, John,
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Comus
,
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History of Britain
,
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Mithraic religion,
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Mommsen, Theodor,
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Mona
see
Anglesey

Monmouth, Geoffrey of
see
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Montmorency, Anne, Duc de,
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Montoro (poet),
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Moors: Isabella drives from Spain,
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Moraes, Dom,
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Morant, Philip,
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More, Sir Thomas,
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Morrigan, the (Celtic figures),
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mother-right
see
matriarchy

motherhood,
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Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet Louis, 1st Earl,
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Mpororo people,
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Muhammad the Prophet,
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Mukumbu (Jinga’s sister),
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Mulay Hassan, Nasrid King,
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Munius Lupercus,
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Mutlow, Mrs (of Jhansi),
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Naidu, Sarojini,
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Nana, Queen of Kartli,
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Nana Sahib (Dhondu Pant),
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Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: and Queen Louise of Prussia,
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; on women in battle,
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; assumes title of Emperor,
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; conquests,
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,
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; meets Louise at Tilsit,
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; Elba exile,
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Nanny, wife of Old Cudjoe, chief of Maroons,
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Ndongo (central West Africa),
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Neale, Sir John,
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Nehru, Jawaharlal (Pandit),
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Neill, Brigadier-General James George Smith,
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Nelson, Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount,
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Nelson, Thomas:
The History of Islington
,
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Nemain (Celtic figure),
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Nennius,
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Nero, Roman Emperor,
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Nerval, Gérard de,
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New Statesman
(journal),
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Ngola Ari,
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Nicetas,
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Nicholas II, Pope,
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Nicomachus,
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Nino, St,
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Ninus, King of Assyria,
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Ninyas (son of Semiramis),
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noble savage,
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Norfolk, Emma, Countess of,
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Norman, Dorothy,
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Nzinga, Queen of Angola
see
Jinga

Octavia (wife of Mark Antony),
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Octavius, Gaius
see
Augustus

Odainat (Septimius Odenaethus; husband of Zenobia),
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,
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,
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; death,
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; chariot,
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Ogden, C. K.,
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Oliveira Cadornego, Antonio,
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O’Malley, Grace,
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Only-a-Weak-Woman Syndrome,
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Onslow, Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of,
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Ordelaffi, Mario,
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Orlov, Grigory,
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Ornytus,
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Orsi family,
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Orsi, Andrea,
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Ostorius Scapula,
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Oudenarde, Battle of, 1708,
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Oudh: annexed,
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Pageant of Great Women
, 1909,
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Pain, Nesta,
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Palgrave, William,
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Palmyra,
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;
see also
Zenobia, Queen

Paul, St,
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Paul of Samosata, Bishop of Antioch,
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Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of,
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Penthesilea: as Warrior Queen,
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; leads Amazons,
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; Eleanor of Aquitaine imitates,
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; invoked for Matilda of Tuscany,
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,
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; Matilda compared with,
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; Begum of Oudh compared with,
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Peredur (Welsh hero),
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Peter iii, Tsar of Russia (
formerly
Grand Duke),
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Peter Martyr of Anghiera,
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Petilius Cerialis,
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Philip I, King of France,
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Philip the Fair of Flanders,
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Philip II, King of Spain,
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Philippi, Battle of, 42
BC
,
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Phung Thi Chinh,
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Piers of Langtoft,
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Plutarch,
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Pocahontas,
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Poenius Postumus,
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Pole, Reginald, Cardinal,
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Polemo, King of Pontus,
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Polirone monastery, near Mantua,
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Polish partition, 1772,
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Polyclitus,
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Polydore Virgil
see
Vergil, Polydore

Poniatowski, Stanislaus,
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Potemkin, Grigory,
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Powell, Enoch,
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Pragmatic Sanction, 1713,
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Prasutagus, King of the Iceni,
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Prescott, W. H.,
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Primrose, Lady Diana,
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Probus, General,
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Proops, Marjorie,
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Propertius,
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Ptolemy XII Auletes, Pharaoh,
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Ptolemy XIII,
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Ptolemy XIV,
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Ptolemy XV Caesar (Cleopatra’s son),
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Ptolemy Philadelphus (Cleopatra’s son),
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Publius Petronius Turpillanus,
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Purcell, Henry,
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Radziwill, Princess Anton (Princess Louise of Prussia),
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Raju, R. Sundara
see
Sundara Raju, R.

Ramachandra Rao, Maharajah,
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Ramirez, Don Francisco (El Artillero),
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Rangerius,
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Rao Sahib (Pandurang Rao),
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Raphael, Adam,
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Reagan, Ronald,
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Reconquista (Spain),
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Reynolds, Robert:
Boadicea: A Tragedy of War
,
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Rhiannon (Welsh goddess),
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Rhine, Confederation of the,
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Riario, Girolamo,
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Richard III, King of England,
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Richardson, Mrs Charles,
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Richmond, I. A.,
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Rigantona, ‘Queen of the Demons’ (Celtic),
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Robert Curthose,
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Robert, Earl of Gloucester,
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Roberts, Field-Marshal Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl,
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Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of,
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Roger, Bishop of Salisbury,
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Rolfe, John,
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Rose, Sir Hugh,
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Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio:
Semiramide
,
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Rudolf of Swabia, King of Germany,
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Rum, Sultan of,
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Ruskin, John,
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Russell, William Howard,
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Rustaveli, Shota:
The Knight in Panther’s Skin
,
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Rusudani, Princess (Tamara’s aunt),
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Rusudani, Princess (Tamara’s daughter),
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Rutland, Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of,
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Sá, Salvador de,
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Salamis, Battle of, 480
BC
,
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Salic Law,
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Sammes, Aylett:
Britannia Antiqua Illustrata
,
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Samsi, Queen,
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Samtzkhe,
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Santon hoard (Norfolk),
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Sapor I, King of Persia,
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Sargis Mkhargrdzeli,
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Sarmatia,
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Sarraounia
(film),
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Sassanids,
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Satara (Indian state),
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Savage, Richard,
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Savile, Sir Henry,
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Scathach (Irish woman warrior),
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Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von,
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Scribonius,
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Scriptores Historiae Augustae
,
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Segal, Lynne:
Is the Future Female?
,
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Ségur, Louis Philippe, Comte de,
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Seljuk Turks,
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Sen Surendra Nath:
1857
,
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Semiramis: as Warrior Queen,
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; identified with Astarte,
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; historical origins and later writings on,
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,
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; sexual voracity,
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; Zenobia and,
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