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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.