Ashlee wrote:
That's part of mythos about them is true. I recall reading about it in the Time / Life Treasury of American Folklore.
However, where the Classical era Greeks got the idea of the Amazons came from a combination of sources. One is believed to be the Spartan women, who were reputed to be as tough, if not tougher then the men of that martial city-state. Another, perhaps the primary source, was the Scythians, which historians now believe was a matriarchal culture and whom the Greeks had contact with as a part of their overseas trading network.
The Amazons where always historically Lesbian . and only mated with captured males for off spring ,supposedly if male child was born, child was released with the capture male, They kept the females.
That's part of mythos about them is true. I recall reading about it in the Time / Life Treasury of American Folklore.
However, where the Classical era Greeks got the idea of the Amazons came from a combination of sources. One is believed to be the Spartan women, who were reputed to be as tough, if not tougher then the men of that martial city-state. Another, perhaps the primary source, was the Scythians, which historians now believe was a matriarchal culture and whom the Greeks had contact with as a part of their overseas trading network.