{"product_id":"9781472136770","title":"A Brief History of the Amazons Women Warriors in Myth and History - Wilde, Lyn Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eA Brief History of the Amazons Women Warriors in Myth and History\u003c\/u\u003e by Wilde, Lyn Webster\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Little, Brown, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'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.\n\nNorth 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.\n\nCombining 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.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown, 2017","offers":[{"title":"A Brief History of the Amazons Women Warriors in Myth and History \/ Very Good","offer_id":53375530369316,"sku":"9781472136770VG","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_731edfc6-a451-48f8-8e3e-f1293e64f8ab.jpg?v=1781793063","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9781472136770","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}