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Amazons

Also known as Amazon, Amazones

thumb|Wounded Amazon of the Capitoline Museums, Rome thumb|A Greek fighting an Amazon; detail from painted sarcophagus found in Italy, 350–325 BCE thumb|upright=.8|"Amazon preparing for battle" (Queen Antiope (Amazon)|Antiope or [[Hippolyta) or "Armed Venus", by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.]] In Greek mythology, the Amazons () were female warriors and hunters, known for their physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat. Their society was closed to men and they raised only their daughters, returning their sons to thei

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In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a society of female warriors and hunters celebrated for their physical prowess in archery, riding, and combat. These figures appear throughout ancient Greek art and literature as symbols of strength and independence, representing a female-centered society that fascinated and challenged Greek cultural imagination.

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Commons category: Amazons of Greek mythology
female form of label: Αμαζόνα

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Name
Etymology
Alternative terms
Historiography
Mythology
Amazons in the Trojan War
In Scythia
Amazon homeland
Heracles myth
Theseus myth
Amazons and Dionysus
Amazons and Alexander the Great
Roman and ancient Egyptian records
Amazon queens
Various authors and chroniclers
Quintus Smyrnaeus
Diodorus Siculus
Justin and Paulus Orosius
Hyginus
Valerius Flaccus
Palaephatus
Late Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance literature
Amazons in art
Maps
Archaeology
Modern legacy
In literature and media
Literature and comics
Film and television
Games
Military units
Social and religious activism
Science
See also
References
Sources
Primary
Secondary
Further reading
Other languages
External links

Courageous and fiercely independent, the Amazons, commanded by their queen, regularly undertook extensive military expeditions into the far corners of the world, from Scythia to Thrace, Asia Minor, and the Aegean Islands, reaching as far as Arabia and Egypt. Besides military raids, the Amazons are also associated with the foundation of temples and the establishment of numerous ancient cities like Ephesos, Cyme, Smyrna, Sinope, Myrina, Magnesia, Pygela, etc.