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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
By Mayor, Adrienne
- ISBN
- 9780691147208
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on August 22, 2014 | Nonfiction
Few recent books have systematically examined the myths of the Amazons, and even fewer have seriously studied the historical basis for these women warriors. In this work, which the author describes as an "Encyclopedia Amazonica," Mayor (classics, Stanford; Poison King) does both. After summarizing the archaeological evidence from excavated burial sites that point to the Scythians as the origin of the stories of warrior women in ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
