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A Brief History of the Amazons
Women Warriors in Myth and History
Taschenbuch von Lyn Webster Wilde
Sprache: Englisch

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'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons'

This is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.

North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron-Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women.

Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.

'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons'

This is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.

North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron-Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women.

Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.

Über den Autor
Lyn Webster Wilde is a film-maker and writer who has made a special study of myth. She has a degree in English from Cambridge University and has written five books, both fiction and non-fiction. She now lives in Wales and is planning a feature film.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472136770
ISBN-10: 1472136772
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilde, Lyn Webster
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 196 x 124 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Lyn Webster Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 104131372
Über den Autor
Lyn Webster Wilde is a film-maker and writer who has made a special study of myth. She has a degree in English from Cambridge University and has written five books, both fiction and non-fiction. She now lives in Wales and is planning a feature film.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472136770
ISBN-10: 1472136772
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilde, Lyn Webster
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 196 x 124 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Lyn Webster Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2017
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 104131372
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