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Amazon Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men

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EXCERPT: Archaeology shows that these fierce women also [...] wore trousers, smoked pot, covered their skin with tattoos, rode horses, and fought as hard as the guys. [...] The Amazons got a bum rap in antiquity. [...] Legends sprang up like weeds. They cut off their breasts to fire their bows better! They mutilated or killed their boy children! Modern (mostly male) scholars continued the confabulations. The Amazons were hard-core feminists. Man haters. Delinquent mothers. Lesbians. Drawing on a wealth of textual, artistic, and archaeological evidence, Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons, dispels these myths and takes us inside the truly wild and wonderful world of these ancient warrior women...


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