"Stanford researcher explores the truths behind myths ....." Topic

…of ancient Amazons.

"Hippolyta, Antiope and Penthesilea. These are the names of Amazonian women warriors made famous in folklore, thanks in large part to male Greek storytellers like Homer and Herodotus.

They were huntresses, founders of cities, rivals and lovers of adventurous men. They battled the Greek hero Heracles and fought alongside the Trojans in the final hours of Troy. And yet, they are widely held to be little more than figments of Greco-Roman imagination.

But warrior women actually existed, according to Stanford's Adrienne Mayor, a research scholar in the Department of Classics. In her new book, The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World, Mayor explains the real-world underpinnings and history behind the Amazonian folklore…."
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