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02266aam a2200289 i 4500 001 E8533198E1C811EE94D662C22BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240314010222 008 180207s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1643131478 020 $a 9781643131474 040 $a PABRO $b eng $e rda $c PABRO $d SILO 050 4 $a BL820.A6 $b M36 2018 082 04 $a 398/.352 $2 23 100 1 $a Man, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Searching for the Amazons : $b the real warrior women of the ancient world / $c John Man. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2018. 300 $a xiv, 301 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index. 520 $a Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks.For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of the world's greatest river, and named it after them. In the absence of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and storytelling. Until now.Following decades of new research and a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Searching for the Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia-from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China-to discover the truth about the truth about these women whose legend has resonated over the centuries. 541 $a WPL: Given in memory of John Wendell Holmes 650 0 $a Amazons. 650 0 $a Women soldiers $x History. 650 0 $a Mythology, Greek. 941 $a 1 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314021949.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8533198E1C811EE94D662C22BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search