"2500-Year-Old 'Wonder Woman' Found on Vase" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2015 9:41 p.m. PST |
"A 2,500-year-old predecessor of DC Comics' Wonder Woman super heroine has emerged on a vase painting kept at a small American museum. Drawn on a white-ground pyxis (a lidded cylindrical box that was used for cosmetics, jewelry, or ointments) the image shows an Amazon on horseback in a battle against a Greek warrior. Much like the fictional warrior princess of the Amazons, the horsewoman is twirling a lasso…"
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| RavenscraftCybernetics | 06 Jun 2015 7:35 a.m. PST |
Why is this amazing? dont they require students to read The Histories by Herodotus anymore? |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 06 Jun 2015 8:19 a.m. PST |
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| GurKhan | 06 Jun 2015 10:18 a.m. PST |
I don't quite understand why this is "news"; the vase isn't a new find, or even a new interpretation. See link The rider is already identified as an Amazon on that link, though when Nick Sekunda published the picture twenty-odd years ago in his Osprey "Persian Army" book he reconstructed it as a cavalry_man_ using the lasso that Herodotos describes for the Sagartians. |
| goragrad | 07 Jun 2015 1:20 p.m. PST |
So much for all of those 'busty' Amazon figures… |
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