In Plato’s Greece, women were not citizens of the Greek city states and remained legally and materially subordinate to the free adult men who alone comprised the electorates. But women provided leadership for many ancient civilizations. Boudicca of the Iceni led her tribe against the Roman invaders of ancient Britain; Cleopatra ruled Egypt; and Zenobia was queen of Palmyra. The histories of many women political leaders have been lost. Only a few have been lost. Only a few have been the subjects of the kind of textual descriptions that abound of successful male leaders or the kind of significant research that would help uncover such texts (see Forty and Forty, 1997; Fraser, 1988).