The Amazons : lives and legends of warrior women across the ancient world
| 1. Verfasser: |
Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 519 p. : ill. (some color) ; 26 cm. |
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 4 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Atalanta, the Greek Amazon
- Ancient puzzles and modern myths
- Scythia, Amazon homeland
- Sarmatians, a love story
- Bones : archaeology of Amazons
- Breasts : one or two?
- Skin : tattooed Amazons
- Naked Amazons
- Sex and love
- Drugs, dance, and music
- The Amazon way
- Horses, dogs, and eagles
- Who invented trousers?
- Armed and dangerous : weapons and warfare
- Amazon languages and names
- Hippolyte and Heracles
- Antiope and Theseus
- Battle for Athens
- Penthesilea and Achilles at Troy
- Amazons at sea
- Thalestris and Alexander the Great
- Hypsicratea, King Mithradates, and Pompey's Amazons
- Caucasia, crossroads of Eurasia
- Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia
- Amazonistan : Central Asia
- China
