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The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen (ISBN 0-87910-327-2) is a non-fiction book documenting the evolution of the female action hero in cinema, television and pop-culture. [ 1 ] The Modern Amazons was written by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini and published by Hal Leonard/Limelight Editions in 2006.
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.
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.
They were the only female army in modern history. [1] 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 ...
Films about Amazons, female warriors and hunters, who were as skilled and courageous as men in physical agility, strength, archery, riding skills, and the arts of combat. Pages in category "Films about Amazons"
Keira Knightley, 39, stars in Netflix's new spy thriller 'Black Doves.' Here's how she trained for the series, plus all the details on her workouts and diet.
It’s been a week since a woman died in a New York City subway car, set on fire by a homeless, undocumented man. She has yet to be identified and the man charged with her murder says he doesn’t ...
The earliest known recording of the Amazons can be found in Homer's epic poem the Iliad, in which Homer described them as Amazon antianeirai, a term with multiple translations including "the equal of men." [2] "Amazon" has become an eponym for woman warriors and athletes in both modern and ancient society.