The Amazons: lives and legends of warrior women across the Ancient World
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| adam_text | Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Prologue:
Atalanta,
the Greek Amazon
1
Part
і
Who Were the Amazons?
1
Ancient Puzzles and Modern Myths
17
2
Scythia, Amazon Homeland
34
3
Sarmatians, a Love Story
52
Part
2
Historical Women Warriors and Classical Traditions
4
Bones: Archaeology of Amazons
63
5
Breasts: One or Two?
84
6
Skin: Tattooed Amazons
95
7
Naked Amazons
117
8
Sex and Love
129
9
Drugs, Dance, and Music
142
10
The Amazon Way
155
11
Horses, Dogs, and Eagles
170
12
Who Invented Trousers?
191
13
Armed and Dangerous: Weapons and Warfare
209
14
Amazon Languages and Names
234
Part
3
Amazons in Greek and Roman Myth, Legend, and History
15
Hippolyte and Heracles
249
16
Antiope
and Theseus
259
Vlil
CONTENTS
17
Battle for Athens
271
18
Penthesilea and Achilles at Troy
287
19
Amazons at Sea
305
20
Thalestris and Alexander the Great
319
21
Hypsicratea, King Mithradates, and Pompey s Amazons
339
Part
4
Beyond the Greek World
22
Caucasia, Crossroads of Eurasia
357
23
Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia
377
24
Amazonistan: Central Asia
395
25
China
411
Appendix: Names of Amazons and Warrior Women in Ancient
Literature and Art from the Mediterranean to China
431
Notes
439
Bibliography
485
Index
503
ILLUSTRATIONS
t
ШИ
PLATES
(foll
owing p.
Í.Amazon
queen Melanippe
2.
Amazon rider
3.
Warrior woman s skeleton with iron dagger
4.
Modern mounted female archer
5.
Modern Parthian shot on horseback
6.
Amazon on white horse, Etruscan tomb painting
7.
Hippolyte offers her belt to Heracles
8.
Amazon hunting deer with horse, dog, and eagle
9.
Modern female eagle hunter on horseback
10.
Amazon
slinger
11.
Amazonomachy
12.
Amazon wielding a battle-axe
13.
A pair of Amazons
14.
Treasure from Teuta s pirate empire
Fiemes
P.
1.
Atalanta
in athletic outfit
5
P.2.
Atalanta
wrestling Peleus
6
1.1.
Two Amazon dolls
32
4.1.
Earliest known Amazon grave
72
4.2.
Young warrior woman and male warrior buried with weapons
78
4.3.
Battle injuries of women warriors
81
ILLUSTRATIONS
5.1.
Greeks battling Amazons
90
6.1.
Deer tattoo, Thracian woman with axe
96
6.2.
Tattooed woman running with sword
99
6.3.
Heavily tattooed Thracian women with weapons
100
6.4.
Tattooed Thracian woman wielding axe
101
6.5.
Amazon with tattoo-like sleeves and leggings
103
6.6.
Neolithic tattooed female forms
107
6.7.
Traditional tattoos of Bosnian and Kurdish women
109
6.8.
Scythian female mummy s tattoo revealed by infrared
113
6.9.
The Ice Princess s tattoos
115
7.1.
Heroically nude Amazons
119
7.2.
Amazons swimming and Amazons arming
122
7.3.
Nude Amazon, Etruscan tomb painting
124
7.4.
Amazon supporting nude dying companion, ancient gem
126
7.5.
Achilles and naked Penthesilea, ancient gem
127
8.1.
Amazon and her Greek male lover
135
8.2.
Thracian huntress courting the Amazon Penthesilea
136
8.3.
Female war dancer with spear and shield
141
9.1.
Cannabis
burning equipment, Scythia
150
10.1.
Sacred black rock on Amazon Island
167
10.2.
Amazon Island archaeological ruins
168
11.1.
Amazon training horse
174
11.2.
Amazons and four-horse war chariot
178
11.3.
Amazon riding a branded horse
181
11.4.
Amazon fighting a griffin
185
12.1.
Amazon in trousers
192
12.2.
Amazon putting on ankle guards or spurs
203
12.3.
Scythian mounted warrior woman, artist s reconstruction
206
12.4.
Trousers and hats from Scythian graves
207
13.1.
Amazon archer speed shooting
211
13.2.
Amazon stringing bow, coins
214
13.3.
Amazon stringing bow, vase
215
13.4.
Amazon bronze swords and battle-axe
224-225
13.5.
Amazon with lasso
227
13.6.
Amazonomachy by Eretria Painter
230
13.7.
Amazonomachy by Aison
231
13.8.
Amazons overcoming Greek warriors
232
ILLUSTRATIONS
Xl
14.1.
Deer stones and
tamgas
on the steppes
244
15.1.
Hippolyte and Heracles conversing peacefully
251
15.2.
Heracles killing Hippolyte for her belt
252
16.1.
Greek seizing Amazon; Amazon Parthian shot
262
16.2.
Theseus abducting
Antiope
263
16.3.
Antiope
and her horse
266
16.4.
Katharine Hepburn as
Antiope,
1932 267
16.5.
Antiope,
Theseus, and their son, Hippolytus, neoclassical gem
269
18.1.
Penthesilea on horse versus Achilles
295
18.2.
Achilles kills Penthesilea
296
18.3.
Achilles spears Penthesilea
299
18.4.
Achilles supports dying Penthesilea
300
18.5.
Achilles carries dead Penthesilea
301
19.1.
Amazon with anchor, coin
306
19.2.
Artemisia s alabaster perfume jar, gift from Xerxes
316
20.1.
Woman warrior with quiver and bow, Baktria
332
21.1.
Captive Amazons
349
21.2.
Amazon in wolf cap, coins
352
22.1.
Khosrov glimpses Shirin bathing
367
22.2.
Queen Nushaba of
Barda
and Alexander
369
23.1.
Egyptians and Amazons papyrus
384
23.2.
Amanitore, kandake of Meroe
390
24.1.
Chase the Girl race, Kazakhstan
398
24.2.
Saikal, Kalmyk heroine
400
24.3.
Tomyris, Issyk warrior, and Chase the Girl coins, Kazakhstan
404
25.1.
Fu
Hao and her bronze battle-axe
415
25.2.
Xiongnu woman s skull with battle injuries
423
25.3.
Mulan
stringing her bow, with horse
428
MAPS
P.
1.
Ancient Greek world
4
2.1.
Nomadic cultures, Eurasia to China
35
2.2.
Black Sea region
39
2.3.
Scythians and Amazons, migration routes
42
2.4.
Black Sea, Caucasus, Caspian Sea region
42
Xli
ILLUSTRATIONS
4.1.
Archaeological sites with warrior women s graves
66
17.1.
Battle for Athens
274
19.1.
Amazon sea voyages
307
20.1.
Routes of Alexander and Thalestris
326
25.1.
Central Asia and China
413
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