in ancient Greek mythology, women warriors in Asia Minor and along the coast of Maeotis (the Sea of Azov). According to ancient legends, the Amazons, in order to preserve their race, contracted marriages with men from other tribes and then sent them back to their homelands. If a boy was...
In Greek mythology, Deucalion was the son of Prometheus. Warned by his father of a coming flood, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha built an ark. After the waters had subsided, they were instructed by a god to throw stones over their shoulders which then became men and women. Dia Dia is ...
300 stands out among Greek mythology films due to its stylistic approach and focus on the brave warriors fighting to protect Greek civilization. Based on the Battle of Thermopylae, the film thrusts audiences into a world where godlike warriors clash against impossible odds. The mythical elements o...
Amazon, in Greek mythology, member of a race of women warriors. They figure in traditional tales of Heracles’ labors and the Trojan War. Their representation in ancient art transformed from resembling the warrior goddess Athena to the hunter goddess Art
The Amazons, a group of fearless women warriors in Greek mythology The Legendary Amazons were a group of warrior women in Greek mythology. The Amazons were said to inhabit a region near the Black Sea called Themiscyra. They lived apart from men, only… ...
The character of Ares in Greek mythology will be best understood if we compare it with that of other divinities who are likewise in some way connected with war. Athena represents thoughtfulness and wisdom in the affairs of war, and protects men and their habitations during its ravages. Ares,...
Then to the camp she goes and, mingling with the heroes that glittered in gold and steel, shouts like a squadron; she gives swords to hurrying warriors, claps their steeds and beckons gateward; the brave anticipate her promptings and even the timid are inspired to short-lived valour."...
In her bestselling novel The Foretelling, she brings similar sensibilities to the world of the Greek tribe of women warriors known as Amazons. She combines Greek myth with new discoveries in archaeology in Russia and the Ukraine to tell a suspenseful coming-of-age story about a young Amazon ...
Amazon, in Greek mythology, member of a race of women warriors. The story of the Amazons probably originated as a variant of a tale recurrent in many cultures, that of a distant land organized oppositely from one's own. The ascribed habitat of the Amazons necessarily became more remote as ...
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 22 (from Porphyrius, Commentary on Homer's Iliad 189) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "As it is said in Hesiod in the Catalogue of Women concerning Demodoke the daughter of Agenor: 'Demodoke whom very many of men on ...