A brief history of the Amazons : women warriors in myth and history
Wilde, Lyn Webster2016
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'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. Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.
Main title:
A brief history of the Amazons : women warriors in myth and history / Lyn Webster Wilde.
Author:
Wilde, Lyn Webster, author
Imprint:
London : Robinson, 2016.
Collation:
xii, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as On the trail of the women warriors. London: Constable, 1999.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472136770 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.48894398.352
LC class:
HQ1139
Language:
English
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BRN:
1447450
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