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24%OFFAdrienne Mayor - The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World - 9780691170275 - 9780691170275
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World

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Description for The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages, 15 color illus. 71 halftones. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBG; HBLA; HRKP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 498.
Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom? Were Amazons real? In this deeply researched, wide-ranging, and lavishly illustrated book, National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the Amazons as they have ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170275
SKU
9780691170275
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About Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University, and the author of The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Reviews for The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Winner of the 2016 Sarasvati Award for Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology, Association for the Study of Women & Mythology 2015 Silver Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, World History category Selected for The New York Times Book Review's The Year in Reading 2016 Shortlisted for the 2014 London Hellenic Prize One of Foreign ... Read more

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