Quotes by : Adrienne Mayor

I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and....

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and....

It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with....

In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature,....

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers'....

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence....