Wie was de machtigste vrouw in de Oudheid?

This relief shows Cleopatra with Caesarion, her son with Roman emperor Julius Caesar. Though she had been married to two of her brothers, their unions produced no children.

A portrait of Cleopatra emphasizes her Egyptian headdress. Though the Ptolemaic dynasty descended from a Macedonian general of Alexander the Great—and practiced inbreeding to preserve their bloodline—Cleopatra framed herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

A plaque dedicated to Artemisia shows her surrounded by twelve gods.

Artemisia of Halicarnassus was immortalized in the writings of the Greek historian Herotodus, who lived in Halicarnassus a few decades after her death.