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

"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, Cyr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mayor, Adrienne, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Atalanta, the Greek Amazon
  • Ancient puzzles and modern myths
  • Scythia, Amazon homeland
  • Sarmatians, a love story
  • 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
  • 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
  • Caucasia, crossroads of Eurasia
  • Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia
  • Amazonistan: Central Asia
  • China.