A brief history of the Amazons
Subtitle: women warriors in myth and history
By: Lyn Webster Wilde
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781472136770
Subjects: Amazons; Greek Mythology; Prehistoric Women; Women soldiers; History
Other titles: Amazons :
Work titles: On the trail of the women warriors
Description: 'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess--all possible sources for the ferocious women.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 1999 as On the trail of the women warriors by Constable and Co. Ltd"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.