Tractatus de mulieribus

{{Short description|Ancient Greek work discussing famous women in antiquity}}

Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello ("Treatise on Women Distinguished in Wars"; Greek: {{Lang|grc|Γυναῖκες ἐν πολεμικοῖς συνεταὶ καὶ ἀνδρεῖαι}}, "Women wise and brave in the art of war") is a short ancient Greek work by an anonymous author,Gera, Deborah (1997). Warrior Women: The Anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus. E.J. Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands. p. 4. {{ISBN|90-04-10665-0}}. which discusses fourteen famous ancient women,{{cite journal|last=Gourevitch|first=Danielle|authorlink= Danielle Gourevitch |title=Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|volume=67|year=1998|page=413}} of whom one is not otherwise attested.{{cite journal|last=Lightfoot|first=J.L.|title=Review of Warrior Women by Deborah Gera|journal=Mnemosyne|volume=51|issue=2|year=1998|page=240}} The treatise is preserved as part of a 12th- or 13th-Century manuscript in the Laurentian Library in Florence, Codex Laurentianus 56-1.{{cite book|last=Brodersen|first=Kai|editor-last=Broderson|editor-first=Kai|title=Polyaenus|chapter=Mannhafte Frauen bei Polyaenus und beim Anonymus de Mulieribus|publisher=Verlag Antike|year=2010|page=149}}

Despite the title, not all of the women discussed are warriors, and only a few are portrayed as skilled military strategists. It was written near the end of the second or the beginning of the first century BCE.Holloway, Steven Winford. Orientalism, Assyriology and the Bible, p.325 Deborah Gera has suggested, however, that it was written by Pamphile of Epidaurus during the 1st century AD.{{Cite book |last=Gera |first=Debora |title=Warrior Women. The anonymous Tractatus de mulieribus |publisher=Brill |year=1997 |location=Leiden |pages=60–61 |language=en}}

It is a list of ancient women, four Greek and ten barbarian,{{cite book

| last =McLeod

| first =Glenda

| title =Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance

| chapter=A Fickle Thing is Woman

| publisher =University of Michigan Press

| date =1991

| pages =19

| language =English

| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=05L_e9HhnOEC

| isbn = 9780472102068

| accessdate=2024-03-28}} and contains the following individuals: