The Amazons

Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502651556
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazons written by Ellen Labrecque and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazons were some of the most mysterious and lauded women in Greek mythology. An all-female nation of brave fighters, they rode horseback and were expert archers. Although the stories about the Amazons were first told more than two thousand years ago, these powerful women still strike a chord with readers today. Indeed, they are the same Amazons that DC Comics' Wonder Woman calls her family. Using engaging images, facts, sidebars, and pop culture references, this exciting book tells the Amazon origin myth while weaving in true stories of ancient Greek life and highlighting the relevance of the Amazons in modern-day society.

Author : Guy Cadogan Rothery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times written by Guy Cadogan Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence Mary Bennett
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465576835
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons written by Florence Mary Bennett and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897713
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last of the Amazons written by Steven Pressfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession. The author of the international bestsellers Gates of Fire and Tides of War delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world–a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels of ancient Greece, Gates of Fire and Tides of War. In Last of the Amazons, Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel that will delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of tal Kyrte, the “free people,” a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called “Amazons.” The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of “civilization.” So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. Last of the Amazons is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarily vivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her; to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a young girl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed tal Kyrte for the love of Theseus. With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. Equally impressive is his creation of the Amazon nation, its people, its rituals and myths, its greatness and savagery. Last of the Amazons is thrilling on every page, an epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman.

Author : Lyn Webster Wilde
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472136780
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Amazons written by Lyn Webster Wilde and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women. Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.

Author : Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the Amazons written by Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Dyer
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665744197
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazons and Other Stories written by Richard Dyer and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a fantasy adventure about three unique women in New York City who take on the roles of moral avengers as The Amazons in Central Park, to personal reminiscence of other women who have influenced and inspired his real life, Richard Dyer takes readers on a journey of personal discovery and insight into who we are and who we hope to be.

Author : Clements R. Markham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375119682
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639 written by Clements R. Markham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Author : Clements Robert Markham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639 written by Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Page DuBois
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081530
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centaurs and Amazons written by Page DuBois and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTraces the development of the Greek hierarchical view of life that continues to permeate Western society /div