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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Amazons. Amazons in literature. Mythology, Greek. Women soldiers > History. Women, Prehistoric. Women, Prehistoric > Social conditions.
Genre:	Mythology, Greek.
Physical Description:	xiv, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Format:	Book