2. “They were accounted as men for their high courage, rather than as women for their sex.” Lysias (Funeral Oration 2.4-2.6)  All female warrior tribe  Individual tasks performed: ploughing, planting, pasturing cattle, training horses, hunting on horseback, and practicing warlike exercises  Used in battle: a bow, a sagaris, light shield, and helments

3.  Beyond civilized world  Usually along Thermodon River  Capital as Thermiscya  Neighbors are Scythians and Gargarians (all male tribe)

4.  Two months of every year meet with the neighboring Gargarians  Amazons keep female children  Male children are given to the Gargarians, exposed, or handicapped and kept as slaves

5.  In female children the right breast supposedly was seared off  Improve javelin throwing and shooting bow and arrow skills  Etymology of name  α meaning without and μαζός meaning breast  Various other interpretations of the name  i.e. “No-husband one” “warrior” “mannish”  Usually still a denial of womanhood

6.  The Amazons, like other mythological creatures, have a connection with the gods, goddesses, and heroes

7.  Similarities: hunting, use of bow, shun men and their femininity, their clothing (chiton, a cross strap, high boots, and with a quiver)  The Corinth Amazon: Formation of a Roman Classical Sculpture  Foundation of Ephesus

8.  Priam  antianerai, a match for men  Bellerophon  Third task was to fight the Amazons  Achilles  Aithiopis by Arktinos  Fell in love with Penthesilea after he killed her

10.  Initially part of Heracles myth, later gains his own myth  Amazons go to Athens to take back the Amazon he kidnapped  Antiope or Hippolyta  Battle went on for 3 months and ended with a peace treaty  Sacrifice to Amazons before the festival of Theseus in ancient times  Son, Hippolytus, by the Amazon

12.  Thallestris wanted to have a child with Alexander  They would produce the most superior offspring  Together for 13 days  Probably a false story  Lysimachus, “And where was I at that time?”  Scythian king offered his daughter in marriage  To be like Achilles

13.  Prehistoric Matriachy  J.J. Bachofen  Hittites  Walter Leonhard  Barbarian “Other”  Represent what a woman should not be and define the norm

14.  Etiological myth  Scythians  Kurgans containing warrior women

15. “So much, then, is worthy of mention regarding the Amazons.” -Plutarch