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...
Main Author: | Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- |
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Language: | English |
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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 |