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Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [13] It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym *ha-mazan-'warriors', a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors is a cricket team of the Caribbean Premier League based in Providence, Georgetown, Guyana. It represents Guyana in the league and was established in 2013 for the inaugural season. The team plays home games at Providence Stadium in Guyana. They recruit players mainly from West Indian domestic teams.
This Amazon is believed to be the Amazon queen Hippolyta. Behind Heracles is a scene of a Greek warrior clashing shields with an Amazon warrior. Another slab displays a mounted Amazon charging at a Greek, who is defending himself with a raised shield. This Greek is believed to be Theseus, who joined Heracles during his labors.
They were named Amazons by Western Europeans who encountered them, due to the story of the female warriors of Amazons in Greek mythology. The emergence of an all-female military regiment was the result of Dahomey's male population facing high casualties in the increasingly frequent violence and warfare with neighbouring West African states.
Reconstruction of the late antique Hunting Amazons mosaic. The Amazons were a group or race of female warriors in Ancient Greek mythology. Most of them are only briefly named in one or two sources, either as companions of Penthesilea at the Trojan War, or as being killed by Heracles during his 12 labours.
Mural of Queen Calafia and her Amazon warriors at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, California, painted in 1926 by Maynard Dixon and Frank Van Sloun. Rodríguez de Montalvo's description of Calafia, her people and her country was based upon many centuries of stories of Amazons, groups of woman warriors who fought like men. As well, the ...
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Diodorus Siculus highlights her exceptional swiftness, noting that she was the first Amazon to charge Heracles in battle. [1] A hippeis rider seizes a mounted Amazon armed with a labrys by her Phrygian cap. This 4th-century AD Roman mosaic, from Daphne near Antioch-on-the-Orontes (now Antakya in Turkey), is housed in the Louvre, Paris.