The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

Adrienne Mayor

536 pages • first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

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The real history of the Amazons in war and loveAmazons--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, an...

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