Periplus to the Unknown. The Greek Conquest of the Black Sea and the Origin of the Amazon Myths
Journal: STUDIA ANTIQUA ET ARCHAEOLOGICA
Year: 2024

The aim of this paper is to address the colonisation of the Pontus in relation to the Amazon myths. An attempt will be made to clarify the difficulties in identifying both the initial contacts between the Greeks and the ancient steppe nomad peoples in that region and the origin of the Amazon myths on the basis of the apparently more egalitarian lifestyle of those societies. Similarly, the intention is to offer an explanation for the presence of iconographic pieces of an Amazon character in that