![]() In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Themiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults and an armed bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious warrior women.Ĭombining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has explored a largely unknown field and produced a coherent and absorbing book in On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History, which challenges our preconceived notions of what men and women can do. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords, and armor. ![]() ![]() Did they really exist? Until recently 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. Maiden and Lyn Webster Wildes book On the Trail of the Women Warriors. ![]() Condition: Used - Near Fine Jacket Condition: Near Fine. "Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons." That is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated society ever since. The Moon Riders is a young adult historical novel by Theresa Tomlinson, first published in. ON THE TRAIL OF THE WOMEN WARRIORS: THE AMAZONS IN MYTH AND HISTORY. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |