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Amazon Warriors’ Names Revealed Amid “Gibberish” on Ancient Greek Vases National Geographic

Amazons were thought to be solely mythological until archaeologists unearthed Scythian burials of real women warriors, says (Adrienne) Mayor, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and author of the just-released The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World.

“Amazons were clearly exotic and exciting to the Greeks. Clearly there is respect and admiration mixed with ambivalence,” says Mayor. “Women lived much more separate and unequal lives in the Greek world, so the notion of women who dressed like men and fought like them was pretty exciting to them.”