The Amazons

The Amazons
Author: Ellen Labrecque
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502651556
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The Amazons were some of the most mysterious and lauded women in Greek mythology. An all-female nation of brave fighters, they rode horseback and were expert archers. Although the stories about the Amazons were first told more than two thousand years ago, these powerful women still strike a chord with readers today. Indeed, they are the same Amazons that DC Comics' Wonder Woman calls her family. Using engaging images, facts, sidebars, and pop culture references, this exciting book tells the Amazon origin myth while weaving in true stories of ancient Greek life and highlighting the relevance of the Amazons in modern-day society.

The Amazons

The Amazons
Author: Adrienne Mayor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691170274
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The real history of the Amazons in war and love 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 Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China. Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons—Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China. Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.

The Amazons

The Amazons
Author: Guy Rothery
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503157286
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This is a look at the Ancient Greek myth about the Amazons, the legendary women fighters. From the intro: "NEVER, perhaps, has the alchemy of Greek genius been more potent than in the matter of the Amazonian myth. It has bestowed a charm on the whole amazing story which has been most prolific in its results; but, unfortunately, by tending to confine it to the narrow vistas of poetry, the intensely interesting psychological aspect has been somewhat obscured. Yet to us the chief value of this myth is due rather to the insight it affords into the mental workings of primitive races, the attitude of man towards that which he dreads but does not fully comprehend, than to the influence of Hellenic art and literature, fruitful in beautiful and humanising manifestations though that influence has been. The Greek spirit, indeed, working upon a crude collection of stories, took the sting, out of the lessons they should have taught. For, as we shall endeavour to show, the message of the myth to a people struggling towards a higher civilisation to beware of barbarians and their ways, was softened to an attitude of admiration before physical beauty and courage, and a tender pity for woman, fomenter of strife though she might be. We may unhesitatingly sweep away the story of the unnatural state about which so many Greek poets and historians entertain us. But while relegating the Amazonian state to the realms of imagination, we must recognise the Amazon herself as a not insignificant historic fact--a fact, indeed, of sufficient moment to have peopled a whole world of fiction, real enough to its original creators, and whose force is hardly spent even now. Etymology will not help us much, though it has been relied upon by controversialists. Any argument founded on the descriptive nature of the word, or on its somewhat suspicious many-sidedness, must prove a double-edged weapon, as likely to injure the wielder as his opponent. Besides the obvious "breastless" (a-mazon) and "moon" (maza), we are offered a choice of a variety of interpretations conveying to us such meanings as "vestals," "girdle-bearers," and other synonyms, also "game eaters" and "eaters of strong foods." But after all the word is hybrid Greek, not a native name, and may be classed as a nickname, itself much younger than the supposed state; and then, naturally, it would be as comprehensively descriptive as the ingenuity of man could devise. We may, therefore, leave the etymologists to the labyrinthine twistings of their own wordy warfare."

On the Trail of the Women Warriors

On the Trail of the Women Warriors
Author: Lyn Webster Wilde
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466875550
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"Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons." That is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated society ever since. Did they really exist? Until recently scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons, and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords, and armor. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Themiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults and an armed bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious warrior women. Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has explored a largely unknown field and produced a coherent and absorbing book in On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History, which challenges our preconceived notions of what men and women can do.

A Brief History of the Amazons

A Brief History of the Amazons
Author: Lyn Webster Wilde
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472136780
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'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women. Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.

The Amazons

The Amazons
Author: Guy Cadogan Rothery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre:
ISBN:
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The Amazons (Greek: Ἀμαζόνες, Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών, Amazōn), also known as Oiorpata in the Scythian language, are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Asia Minor, or sometimes Libya.

The Amazons

The Amazons
Author: George Kennedy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727081794
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The Amazons were tribes of warrior women who lived on the edge of the Greek world in ancient times. Greek mythology has the Amazon warrior women and their warrior queens tangling with Greek heroes, such as Achilles and Heracles, and mythical creatures, such as the terrible Gorgons. They also fought famous battles such as the Attic and Trojan wars. Historical records tell of mighty Emperors such as Alexander the Great and Cyrus of Persia, tangling with Amazons. But were the Amazons of ancient Greece the only warrior women ever to exist on earth? Myths, tales, songs, local history from different lands tell of the existence of mighty warrior women and warrior queens since ancient times to the modern era. Without a doubt, the continents of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, at different periods in history, witnessed the existence of Amazon warrior women in nations and tribes. They built cities and towns. Their armies went to battle against men and conquered. Warrior queens ruled mighty kingdoms that defied vast empires; one warrior queen even defeated Alexander the Great in battle! The Amazon warrior women glorified in violence, fighting and sexual freedom. By their brave deeds they rewrote history, but were denied recognition by the male-dominated society of their time, and so the world never heard of them. Today, so many people even doubt if the Amazons ever existed! Who were these mighty barbarian warrior women? Where did they come from and where did they go? In this well researched, far reaching, and well-illustrated book, author Gorge Kennedy presents a comprehensive account of Amazon warrior women and warrior queens throughout history from ancient times to present era, from the lands of ancient Greece and the Black Sea to the rainforests of Central and South America, from the old lands of Africa to the ancient lands of Central Asia, China and the Japans. Kennedy tells of the history and myths of Amazon women from different lands and eras, the warrior queens and mighty warrior women, their armies, nations and tribes. He reveals facts never known before, including evidence, such as astonishing new archaeological discoveries, that proves warrior women weren't just fabrications of human imagination. Combining historical facts, classical art and myth, oral and local traditions, and scientific proof, he reveals original details and insights about amazons lives and legends, which comprises all the Amazon women throughout world history. Kennedy separates fact from fiction as he shows how real-life warrior women who lived in different parts of the world at different times were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. Amazons live and legends. The fascinating history, tales and proof in one book! Tags: amazon warriors, amazon warrior women, warrior women, amazons lives and legends, female warriors, Greek mythology, ancient Greece, warrior queen, Amazon women, Amazon women warriors. Amazon women tales, Amazon women in history. warrior women in history, female warriors, female warriors in history, female warriors amazon women. .

Postcolonial Amazons

Postcolonial Amazons
Author: Walter Duvall Penrose (Jr.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199533377
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Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world.