About Bad Ass Women in the Ancient World.

 This blog started out as a Twitter thread, that I believe out grew Twitter. I wanted to make the stories of ancient women accessible and entertaining  hence the the title Bad Ass Women. Each week or so there will be a post about an ancient woman. The queens who I have  already written on the  Twitter threads  will be turned into blog posts.

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