![]() ![]() ![]() The 17th-century Jesuit Cristobal de Acuña claimed that he encountered Amazon women in South America. In the middle of the Black Sea, however, the women rose up and overcame their captors, and they eventually landed on the shores of the Sea of Azov and settled down with the Scythians who already lived there. ![]() Herodotus, the “father of history,” claims that Greeks took Amazon women captive and put them aboard ships to bring them home as slaves. Wilde then turns to the ancient Greek sources. Wilde begins her survey with etymology, examining the two theories about the origin of the word “Amazon”: it is either Greek (“without breasts”) or Armenian (“moon-women”). They do not, it turns out, come from the river Amazon in South America rather, the Amazon women first appear in ancient Greek writings. The women of the Amazon, legend has it, were powerful, fierce fighters who lived without men-once a year they sought out male company in order to reproduce, but for the other 364 days they were fine on their own. An unsatisfying Cook’s tour of Amazon legends.įilmmaker and broadcaster Wilde suggests that the Amazon myth is not so mythical after all. ![]()
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