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Agariste. Agnes (name) Alexandra. Alexia (given name) Aliki (name) Alina. Amalia (given name) Amaryllis (given name) Anastasia.
Alcimede (Greek myth) Alcimede (mother of Jason) Alcyone (daughter of Sciron) Alcyonides. Alexida. Alexirrhoe. Alistra (mythology) Alope. Alphesiboea.
Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Prime Minister of the modern Greek state. Georgios Hatzianestis (1863–1922), General. Konstantinos Kanaris (c. 1794–1877), freedom fighter, admiral, and Prime Minister of Greece. Constantine I (1868–1923), King of Greece. Constantine II (1940–2023), King of Greece. George II (1890–1947), King of Greece.
New categories by gender may be deleted if they do not meet the tests set out in that guideline. This includes women of Ancient Greece who were notable chiefly for the men they married, or the men they were ancestors of. For example, Hipparete (wife of Alcibiades) or Agariste of Sicyon (ancestor of Alcibiades and Pericles ).
Aspasia. Marble portrait herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. [ 1] Aspasia ( / æˈspeɪʒ ( i) ə, - ziə, - ʃə /; [ 2] Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek: [aspasíaː]; c. 470 – after 428 BC [ a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with ...
List of women warriors in folklore. The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred ...
Afina ( Russian ), ( Ukrainian ), Athéna ( French ), Aþena Icelandic, Athenais, Athénaïs ( French ), Athene, Athina (Modern Greek) Athena is a female given name of Greek origin, especially in reference to the Greco-Roman goddess Athena. The name has been among the top 1,000 names for girls in the United States since the mid-1950s and was ...
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.