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Amazons
  • The History Behind the Legend
  • David Braund
  • Published online:
    26 March 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025
  • The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles' duel with Penthesilea was a clash of superman and superwoman. Achilles won the fight, but the queen's dying beauty had torn into his soul. This vibrant new book offers the first complete picture of the reality behind the legends. It shows there was much more to the Amazons than a race of implacable warrior women. David Braund casts the Amazons in a new light: as figures of potent agency, founders of cities, guileful and clever as well as physically impressive and sexually alluring to men. Black Sea mythologies become key to unlocking the Amazons' mystery. Investigating legend through history, literature, and archaeology, the author uncovers a truth as surprising and evocative as any fiction told through story or myth.

  • 17 - Conclusion

  • from Part III - Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Aeolic and Aeolians
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 519-552

  • Summary

    A synthetic, concluding discussion addressing the relationship between Ur-Aeolic and Special Mycenean and providing a historical framework for, especially, the introduction of Aeolic language and culture (pre-Thessalian/Boeotian) into European Greece following the Bronze-Age collapses and for the spread of pre-Aeolians (Iron-Age Ahhiyawans) eastward into Cilicia.

  • 7 - Aeolian Self-Identity and Metapontium

  • from Part II - Aeolian Origins in Myth
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Aeolic and Aeolians
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 179-210

  • Summary

    Exploration of Aeolian foundation traditions and the localizing of such traditions in both the eastern Aegean and Magna Graecia, and of the reflexivity and reciprocality of Aeolian ethnic identity that these mythic traditions entail.