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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 Years' War. The only direct ...
Combat Girls (the original title is Kriegerin, the German term for a female warrior) is a 2011 German drama film written and directed by David Wnendt [].It had its international premiere at the 2011 São Paulo International Film Festival where Alina Levshin was awarded as best actress.
Modern scholars are unsure if Camilla was entirely an original invention of Virgil, or represents some actual Roman myth. [6] In his book Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Michael Paschalis speculates that Virgil chose the river Amasenus (today the Amaseno, near Priverno, ancient Privernum) as a poetic allusion to the Amazons with whom Camilla is associated. [7]
The Woman King is a 2022 American quasi-historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries.
According to the semi-legendary history of early Rome, its seventh and last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was the first to go to war against the Volsci, commencing two centuries of conflict between the two states. [8] Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, the legendary Roman warrior, earned his cognomen after capturing the Volscian town of Corioli in
The River, an American film by Pare Lorentz; The River, a French film by Jean Renoir; Nehir or The River, a 1977 Turkish film by Şerif Gören; The River, an American film by Mark Rydell; The River, a Taiwanese film by Tsai Ming-liang; The River, a Finnish film by Jarmo Lampela
The following is a list of female action heroes and villains who appear in action films, television shows, comic books, and video games and who are "thrust into a series of challenges requiring physical feats, extended fights, extensive stunts and frenetic chases."
The Volsci started to retire soon after the battle had started, and, as they had planned, the Romans were drawn into following them up the rising ground toward the Volscian camp. Here the Volsci had placed several cohorts in reserve and these joined the battle. Fighting uphill against superior numbers, the Romans started to flee.