The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Mayor, Adrienne
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Mayor, Adrienne

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

The real history of the Amazons in war and love Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes...
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Author: Adrienne Mayor
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Mayor, Adrienne

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

$100.41
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Mayor, Adrienne

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

$100.41
Author: Adrienne Mayor
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The real history of the Amazons in war and love

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, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons.

But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have never been seen before. This is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China.

Mayor tells how amazing new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred female skeletons buried with their weapons prove that women warriors were not merely figments of the Greek imagination. Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, she reveals intimate, surprising details and original insights about the lives and legends of the women known as Amazons. Provocatively arguing that a timeless search for a balance between the sexes explains the allure of the Amazons, Mayor reminds us that there were as many Amazon love stories as there were war stories. The Greeks were not the only people enchanted by Amazons--Mayor shows that warlike women of nomadic cultures inspired exciting tales in ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia, and China.

Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men. The result is likely to become a classic.

Author: Adrienne Mayor
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/22/2014
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.53w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780691147208


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2014

About the Author
Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University, and the author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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