There Was a Time When Governments Tried to Make Their People Better
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The Byzantine Empire, often overshadowed by its predecessor, the Roman Empire, and its successor, the Ottoman Empire, was a remarkable civilization that
Today, the term στρίγγλα, a word derived from Strix, endures to denote a woman who does not conform to patriarchal female stereotypes and is thus stripped of her femininity. The word translates in English variously as hag, vixen, shrew or virago - a woman who is man-like. So many aeons later, the othering continues.
Dean Kalimniou takes a deep dive into history to explain how the phrase "King of Kings" came to be.
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene was banished to a convent for trying to kill her brother, but kept herself busy becoming Europe's first female historian.