“This list of woman warriors in mythology and folklore offers figures studied in fields such as literature, sociology, psychology,anthropology, film studies, mass communication, cultural studies, and women’s studies. A mythological figure does not mean a fictional one, but rather, someone of whom stories have been told that have entered the cultural heritage of a people. Some women warriors are documented in the written record and as such form part of history (e.g. the Ancient Briton queen Boudica, who led the Iceni into battle against the Romans); others exist as goddesses such as Artemis, the hunter of Ancient Greece.”i