First mentioned by Homer, who considered them 'women the equal of men,' Amazon women fought bravely and ruthlessly in the Bronze and Iron Ages (2000 BC-300 BC), and sought out masculine society only once. 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, which challenges our preconceived notions of what men and women can do. as a BBC2 Horizon programme called The Ice Maiden and Lyn Webster Wildes book On the Trail of the Women Warriors. In On the Trail of the Women Warriors, Lyn Webster Wilde investigates the original Amazons, independent women warriors who lived without men. 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. "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.
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