Women the epics carry as their central figures, shelved apart from the heroes because the traditions themselves praise different qualities in them, endurance and fidelity more often than feats of arms. Where a tradition gives such a woman a title of its own, queen, saint or prophet, the atlas follows that title instead, so this shelf gathers fewer figures than the epics themselves would suggest.
Facts
Learn More
The heroines
This group gathers heroines, the great women of myth and legend whose courage, wisdom or suffering carries a tradition's story, standing among its central figures alongside its heroes.
The browser will find the figure or figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each heroine's legend and place in the tradition that remembers her.
Browse By
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File, 2004Heroines across world myth and legend, the central women figures of a tradition's storyView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.