The Amazons – “Breastless Women”
We have learned from the writings of Homer that the daughters of Ares were a tribe of warrior women who, according to tradition, lived on the northern coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). The amazons only slept with men when they needed children, which only happened for two months every spring. If they had boys, they either killed the babies or sent them back to their fathers. They burnt off their right breasts to be able to handle the bow easier. Their culture also required that they maintain their virginity until they had killed three enemies. They fought many nations, and they almost never had any peace with the Greeks.
In the Trojan war they sided with the Trojans. It was there that their queen, Penthesileia, died by Achilles hand. As the hero’s eyes met the dying queens, he fell desperately in love with her, ordering the Trojans to give her an honorable funeral.
The tenth labor of Heracles was to get the girdle of the Amazon queen, Hippolytes. According to one version he had to fight for it, according to another the queen gave it to him. One of Theseus deeds was to defeat the amazons, which he did, taking their queen Hippolytes, or Antiope, as his bride. This very possibly could have happened, since the Amazons reputedly attacked Athens once.
Author: Captain Beyond, January 10, 2005
Posted: Monday, January 10th, 2005 @ 8:00 am
Categories: Psychic Bitch Alerts, Psychic Bitch Xtras.
Tags: amazon, women.
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