Amazons : the history behind the legend
| 1. Verfasser: |
Braund, David, 1957-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 302 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781108834490 9781108995122 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : Amazons in love, war, and mind : their significance in ancient Greek culture
- Approaching Amazons
- Amazons in battle : weapons, mind and body
- Sex and motherhood
- A duel of death and desire : Penthesilea vs. Achilles
- Heracles' Amazon labour : Delphi, Olympia and colonial worlds
- Shipwreck and reptiles : the queens of southern Russia
- Amazon cities in Asia : Themiscyra, Ephesus and Halicarnassus
- The pride of Athens
- Artemis vs. Aphrodite : Greek women go Amazon
- Alexander the Great and the Amazon queen
- Conclusions : Amazon realities.
