A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History

by Lyn Webster Wilde

Book Overview

'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. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472136772
• ISBN13: 9781472136770
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Robinson Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.7"