Isabel (Kydonian)
Isabel (died 420s BCE) was a Greek woman who lived in Kydonia in Messara, Greece during the Peloponnesian War.
Biography
Isabel was heartbroken when her husband was drafted into the war. Wanting to help her, a Messaran smuggler promised her that he would retrieve her husband. Unbeknownst to Isabel, the man was smitten with her himself, but still wanted to honestly help her, if only to see her smile. Isabel waited at her home for word or sign, but instead of her husband or the smuggler, soldiers found her instead. They interrogated her, trying to get her to reveal what her husband's whereabout, as he had recently deserted the army. Because she could not tell what she truly did not know, the soldiers killed her, believing her silence to be proof she had helped her husband.[1]