In Greek legends, the Amazons were feared and formidable women warriors who lived on the edge of the known world. Hercules had to obtain the magic girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyte in one of his ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 28, 2020. The audio is available here. For centuries, scholars assumed that Greek myths about fierce warrior women they called Amazons were just ...

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War has been a constant throughout human history, yet most of the classic stories we read focus on men. That’s perhaps why 2017’s Wonder Woman was such a smash hit — audiences clearly crave greater ...

Meet the real Amazons: horse-riding, arrow-flinging women who fought alongside men and were feared by them too. Illustration of a battle scene between Amazons and Greeks on a terracotta lekythos (oil ...

The invention of Wonder Woman is one of the most recent manifestations of a mythologising thread that reaches back to the ancient Greeks: a female warrior who stands up to men, and is at times invoked ...