The Amazons : lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world / Adrienne Mayor.

Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of...

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Main Author: Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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Physical Description:xiv, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Prologue: Atalanta, the Greek Amazon. 
505 0 |a Part 1. Who were the Amazons? Ancient puzzles and modern myths -- Scythia, Amazon homeland -- Sarmatians, a love story. 
505 0 |a Part 2. Historical women warriors and classicla traditions. Bones: Archaeology of Amazons -- Breasts: One or two? -- Skin: Tattooed Amazons -- Naked Amazons -- Sex and love -- Drugs, dance, and music -- The Amazon way -- Horses, dogs, and eagles -- Who invented trousers? -- Armed and dangerous: Weapons and warfare -- Amazon languages and names. 
505 0 |a Part 3. Amazons in Greek and Roman myth, legend, and history. Hippolyte and Heracles -- Antiope and Theseus -- Battle for Athens -- Penthesilea and Achilles at Troy -- Amazons at sea -- Thalestris and Alexander the Great -- Hypsicratea, King Mithradates, and Pompey's Amazons. 
505 0 |a Part 4. Beyond the Greek world. Caucasia, crossroads of Eurasia -- Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia -- Amazonistan: Central Asia -- China. 
505 0 |a Appendix: Names of Amazons and warrior women in ancient literature and art from the Mediterranean to China. 
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