![]() ![]() ![]() The most prominent Amazons include Penthesilea, who fought Achilles in the Trojan War Antiope, won in a raid by Theseus and taken away to be his concubine (the Amazons invaded Athens to get her back, but they were defeated) and Myrina, queen of a race of African Amazons. ![]() Themiscyra, their capital city, was rumored to be located on the Black Sea coast (near present-day Samsun, in northern Turkey), but Amazons were also associated with the goddess-worshipping city of Ephesus on the Aegean coast (now western Turkey).Īmazons were feared and admired for their athletic beauty, and their images survive in ancient art. Male offspring were given away, lamed or slaughtered. According to legend, Amazons abhorred men and lived in women-only communities, taking lovers once a year to procreate. ![]() Other Greek writers embellished the details, describing ferocious fighters and skilled horsewomen who cut off one breast in order to shoot arrows better. Herodotus described them as descendants of shipwrecked Greek women and Scythian men. The legendary group of women was well recorded by ancient Greeks in history and mythology. The Amazons galloped onto the stage of history in the pages of Homer, who called them Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child-slaughtering Amazons. ![]()
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