Searching for the Amazons
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Searching for the Amazons

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Searching for the Amazons

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Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks.For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of the world's greatest river, and named it after them. In the absence of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and storytelling. Until now.Following decades of new research and a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Searching for the Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia—from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China—to discover the truth about the truth about these women whose legend has resonated over the centuries.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781681777078
Topic
History
Subtopic
Greek Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Map: The Realms of the Amazons
  5. Introduction: Changing Myths, Emerging Truths
  6. 1. A Legend and Its Meaning
  7. 2. Close Encounters of the Scythian Kind
  8. 3. A Short Chapter on Breasts
  9. 4. Treasures in Bone and Gold
  10. 5. The Ice Maiden
  11. 6. Sarmatians: The Roots of the Legend
  12. 7. The Return of the Mounted Archer
  13. 8. Amazonia: From Dreams to a New Reality
  14. 9. A Painting, Two Plays and a Suicide
  15. 10. The Amazons of ‘Black Sparta’
  16. 11. Amazons with Wings: Russia’s Night Witches
  17. 12. Wonder Woman: The Secret Origins of an Amazon Princess
  18. Epilogue: Halfway to Amazonia
  19. Bibliography
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Picture Acknowledgements
  22. Illustrations
  23. Index
  24. Also by John Man
  25. Copyright