Amazon Women Were Believed to be an Invention of the Ancient Greeks but New Evidence Proves Otherwise
Is it possible to separate the facts from the fiction?
Sometimes modern thinking can take the magic out of life. Think about all the great beliefs the ancient cultures held about gods and fantastic creatures, like unicorns and mermaids. Modern logic takes all of that and deflates it, passing it off as myth and fantasy. Take the Amazon women, for example. A group who were said to have the strength and courage to stand up to the best of men. They were even tough enough to oppose the likes of Heracles, Theseus, and Achilles. Aside from a once-a-year meeting to procreate, they had no use for men whatsoever.
They killed their male children, while daughters were taught to ride, hunt, and fight with swords and knives. At an early age, they even burnt off their right breast, so it didn’t impede shooting their bows. Now that’s dedication.
Homer was the first to mention the Amazons in his Iliad in the eighth century B.C. He used the term “antianeirai,” which many scholars have translated as “the opposite of men,” “antagonistic to men,” and “the equal of men.”
The early Greek and Roman historians including Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Justin, and Quintus Curtius all…
