Joan d' Ark, Salome, Cleopatra or Elisabeth the first?

Answer 1

I would say Joan of Ark as she was a real hero not a noble like the others you mentioned. Who done what they done because they were wealthy and rulers. Joan of Ark did not do what she done for any crown are to protect her own power base.

Answer 2

I assume that the question is which of these four was the greatest or had the most lasting influence.

I would have to put Salome last, because (1) we don't even know that that was the name of the girl who danced for Herod and then asked for the head of John the Baptist.The Bible doesn't mention her name. (There IS a Salome mentioned in the Gospels--the mother of the apostles James and John--but I doubt that you meant her.) Furthermore, in bringing about the death of John the Baptist, Herod's niece/stepdaughter didn't influence things that much, since as John himself said, he ws already diminishing while Jesus was growing greater.

Cleopatra? She wielded absolute power for close to twenty years and seduced two prominent and powerful Romans, but in the end she lost and her kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire. So not her, either.

Joan and Elizabeth? It's close! Joan freed France from English domination, and, except for the Nazi occupation during World War II, that country never again suffered foreign rule. But my vote woudl have to go to Elizabeth. Although born a king's daughter, she had to survive twenty-five years of being considered a threat, an embarrassment, or both before she came to the throne, on the heels of her sister Mary's inauspicious reign. And she learned from Mary's understandable mistakes. Where Mary messed up her life by marrying a man who didn't love her and wouldn't even stay in England long enough to get her pregnant, Elizabeth simply gave up the opportunity for marriage and family. Where Mary lost Calais, the last English possession on the continent of Europe, Elizabeth instead looked west--and we speak English today. During her reign, the first (though not the first permanent) English colony in the New World was established, literature flourished, and the country generally prospered. And when Mary's remarried widower sent his Armada to teach his sister-in-law a lesson, she inspired her navy to defeat it so soundly that the survivors scarcely knew the way home. (Some of their descendants live in Ireland to this day.)

Of course there's another candidate that you didn.t mention. About thirty years before Salome or whatever her name was did her strip act, a girl not far away had a baby in a barn, and the world has never been the same since.

Answer 3

Elisabeth.. As much as I love Cleopatra I admire Elisabeth for standing her ground and ruling alone. I would have been so easy to give in and marry even at some point I am sure even Dudley would have been better than no one. I feel that she was amazing and way before her time. There is even a painting that was supposedly of her that depicts a very pregnant Elisabeth with a stag and the Tudor Rose. I makes you wonder.

Answer 4

Cleopatra enhanced the Roman leaders of the time, Elizabeth I stood brave in the breach when Spain was within an hour of capturing her kingdom; Salome ,the temptress, lured a king to half his kingdom but accepted her mother;s enemy head on a platter and Joan d'Arc who helped the French gain back their kingdom but lost her life by the hand of he same king she brought to power.

Answer 5

In order:

*Cleopatra
*Salome
*Joan of Arc
*Elizabeth

Answer 6

I love Cleopatra so much!

She was able to use her intelligence to overshadow her lack of natural beauty to seduce two of the most powerful men that have ever lived. She was smart, resourceful and cunning. She was able to seize power and did whatever she could to keep it.

I'm aware she came up short and lost her kingdom to Rome, but that doesn't make her any less great in my eyes.

Answer 7

it's a tie between joan d'ark and elisabeth the first!both were remarkable women!

Answer 8

Well, if you are going to use her French name, it would be Jeanne d'Arc. It doesn't make any sense to use the English "Joan" with the french "d'". Just saying...