Biography - Biographies of Women N-R
Resources and biographies of women from anitquity whose names begin with N-R.
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Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus.
Poppaea Sabina - Claim to Fame: Poppaea Sabina was the mistress of one Roman emperor, Nero, at the same time she was the wife of Marcus Salvius Otho -- later to become one of the emperors in the year of the four.
Basic information on the Greek courtesan Neaira.
Olympias was the mother of Alexander the Great.
Alexander married Roxanne, a princess from Bactria.
Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, a wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the mother of Alexander the Great
Nefertiti was the Chief Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akenhaten. We don't know much about her, but guesses include the idea that she was the real successor of Akhenaten, the Pharaoh Smenkhkare.
