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jessiriel 's review for:
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
by Adrienne Mayor
Filed under Things I Wish I’d Learned in World History when we spent all that time learning about the Greeks and not the Scythians. I am astounded by everything I’ve learned from this book. And I really want to know what gender equality could have looked like if we’d been more influenced by (why couldn’t we have been more influenced by???) the nomadic steppe tribes instead of the Greeks and Romans.
This book is incredibly well-researched and comprehensive. It includes the history, the myths and legends, the archaeological and linguistic evidence—all of it. From Greece to the Central Asian steppes and even to China. In fact, I picked up this book for fun while reading books about women warriors which started with an interest in Mulan retellings, and on the last page, it says, “Thus with Mulan, an Amazon heroine of Chinese legend, we come full circle,” which really feels like a full circle moment for me as well. A++ phenomenal.
This book is incredibly well-researched and comprehensive. It includes the history, the myths and legends, the archaeological and linguistic evidence—all of it. From Greece to the Central Asian steppes and even to China. In fact, I picked up this book for fun while reading books about women warriors which started with an interest in Mulan retellings, and on the last page, it says, “Thus with Mulan, an Amazon heroine of Chinese legend, we come full circle,” which really feels like a full circle moment for me as well. A++ phenomenal.