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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton University Press, 2014) online review; Toler, Pamela D. Women warriors: An unexpected history (Beacon Press, 2019). Wilde, Lyn Webster. On the trail of the women warriors: The Amazons in myth and history (Macmillan, 2000).
In Greek Mythology, Bremusa (Ancient Greek: Βρεμούσα means " furious female" was one of a group of 12 Amazonian warriors. She was born in Themiskyra in 1204 BC [ 1 ] and fought with Penthesilea .
The Amazon Klonie, after slaying her first opponent, is in turn killed. Penthesilea mows through the Greek lines, killing eight warriors, and cuts the arm off the Greek warrior who had killed Klonie. Penthesilea's Amazon comrades Bremusa, Evandre and Thermodosa fight valiantly alongside her but are slain, and so are Derinoe, Alkibie and Derimachea.
Warrior women : an archaeologist's search for history's hidden heroines, 2003; Harcos nők Egy régész kutatása a történelem rejtett hősnői után., 2004; Amazon warrior women, 2004; Donne guerriere : le sciamane delle vie della seta, 2009; Nomads of the Altai Mountains : the Mongols : ancient traditions in a modern world, 2010