3rd-century BC Greek women

queen regnant of Cyrenaica from 258 to 246 BCE and queen of Ptolemaic Egypt (246–221 BC)

thumb|right|Illustration of Anyte by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, for [[Renée Vivien's Les Kitharèdes]] Anyte of Tegea (; ) was a Hellenistic poet from Tegea in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally accepted as authentic. She introduced rural themes to the genre, which became a standard theme in Hellenistic epigrams. She is one of the nine outstanding ancient women poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology. Her pastoral poetry ma

Ancient Macedonian queen consort

Macedonian princess (353/2 or 346/5 BC – 295 BC)

thumb|right|Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace

3rd-century BC Seleucid queen consort

Lysandra (Greek: Λυσάνδρα, meaning "Liberator, Emancipator"; lived 281 BC) was a Queen of Macedonia, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter to Eurydice or Berenice.

thumb|Ill. from De mulieribus claris Leontion (, ; fl. 300 BC) was a notable Greek Epicurean philosopher and student of Epicurus's Garden School. She is known for her authored work against Theophrastus, the head of the Aristotelian school. The manuscript she wrote has been lost over time, but it has been written about by many philosophers over the centuries, including Cicero and Pliny the Elder.

head Priestess of the Seleucid Empire

ruler of Epirus: daughter of Pyrrhus II, sister of Nereis and Pyrrhus III

thumb|upright=1.3|Philaenis was said to have written a sex manual containing descriptions of various sexual positions. This [[red-figure kylix painting from 480–470 BC depicts a man having sexual intercourse with a hetaira, a kind of ancient Greek prostitute.]] Philaenis of Samos was supposedly the author of a famous ancient sex manual. According to a surviving fragment of a treatise which claims to have been written by her, she was from Samos, and her father was called Ocymenes. However, many modern scholars consider "Philaenis" a fictional character whose persona may have been adopted by a v

Bilistiche (Greek: Βιλιστίχη; born c. 280 BC) or Belistiche was a Hellenistic courtesan of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and winner of the 264 BC Olympic Games in tethrippon and synoris.

thumb|right|Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer's portrait of Moero for Les Kitharèdes by [[Renée Vivien]] Moero (, fl. ) or Myro () was a woman poet of the Hellenistic period from the city of Byzantium. Little of her poetry survives: ten lines of her epic poem Mnemosyne are quoted by Athenaeus, and two of her epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology; two other poems are known only through mentions in other sources.

daughter of Antipater, the regent of Macedonia

wife of Pyrrhus I, king of Epire

Anaxandra (; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece. She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She painted She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis (Miscellanies) entitled "Women as Well as Men Capable of Perfection". Clement cites a lost work of the Hellenistic scholar Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.

ancient Greek philosopher

Epirote princess, wife of Demetrius II

ancient Athenian patrician woman

mistress of Ptolemy IV of Egypt

third-century BC mathematician and musical theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music

ancient Greek princess and queen

3rd-century BC Spartan princess

Spartan princess and queen

wife of Antipater

Phintys was a Pythagorean philosopher, probably from the third century BC. She wrote a work on the correct behaviour of women, two extracts of which are preserved by Stobaeus.

ancient Greek philosopher

Greek Macedonian noblewoman who was the third wife of Greek King Agathocles of Syracuse (born before 317 BC; died after 289 BC)

Syracusan princess, daughter of Theoxena of Syracuse and Agathocles of Syracuse

Queen consort of Macedonia (230s–220s BC)

Pythagorean philosopher

Archidamia () (c. 340-241 BC) was a Spartan queen, wife of Eudamidas I, mother of Archidamus IV and Agesistrata, grandmother of Eudamidas II, and great-grandmother of Agis IV.

wife of Mithridates III of Pontus

thumb|Cratisiclias' departure from Sparta Bartolomeo Pinelli Cratesiclea (died 219 BC), was a Spartan queen, married to king Leonidas II of Sparta (ancient Greece), and mother of Cleomenes III and Chilonis.

wife of Attalus I of Pergamon

Agiatis () (died 224 BC), was a Spartan queen, married first to king Agis IV and secondly to king Cleomenes III of Sparta.

daughter of Gelo

Agesistrata (died 241 BC), was a Spartan queen, married to king Eudamidas II of Sparta.

Thessalonian princess who was a contemporary to Greek King Philip V of Macedon

Ionian poet

ancient Greek hetaira, courtier and cup-bearer