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Amazons - The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World (Paperback)
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Amazons - The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World (Paperback)
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by
accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting,
horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends
claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery
skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their
ranks. For centuries people believed in their existence and
attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated
their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying
these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of
the world's greatest river, and named it after them. In the absence
of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence,
concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers
must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and
storytelling. Until now. Following decades of new research and a
series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know
these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Amazons, John
Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia, from the edge of the
ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China, to discover the
truth about the warrior women mythologized as Amazons. In this
deeply researched, sweeping historical epic, Man redefines our
understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the
ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance
today.
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