Amazonia (HORS COLLECTION) (French Edition)

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Later in the Renaissance , as Amazon myth evolved, artists started to depict warrior women in a new light.

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Queen Elizabeth was often thought of as an Amazon-like warrior during her reign and was sometimes depicted as such. Wright "has given a detailed account of the bad press Amazons had in the Renaissance with respect to their unwomanly conduct and Scythian cruelty. She notes that she has not found any Elizabethans comparing the queen directly to an Amazon, and suggests that they might have hesitated to do so because of the association of Amazons with enfranchisement of women, which was considered contemptible.

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel depicted the Battle of the Amazons around , showing many attributes of Renaissance-styled paintings. As a part of the Romantic period revival, German artist Anselm Feuerbach painted the Amazons as well. Herodotus reported that the Sarmatians were descendants of Amazons and Scythians, and that their wives observed their ancient maternal customs, "frequently hunting on horseback with their husbands; in war taking the field; and wearing the very same dress as the men".

Moreover, said Herodotus, "No girl shall wed till she has killed a man in battle". In the story related by Herodotus, a group of Amazons was blown across the Maeotian Lake the Sea of Azov into Scythia near the cliff region today's southeastern Crimea. After learning the Scythian language, they agreed to marry Scythian men, on the condition that they not be required to follow the customs of Scythian women. According to Herodotus, this band moved toward the northeast, settling beyond the Tanais Don river, and became the ancestors of the Sauromatians.

Hippocrates describes them as: Amazons came to play a role in Roman historiography. Caesar reminded the Senate of the conquest of large parts of Asia by Semiramis and the Amazons. Successful Amazon raids against Lycia and Cilicia contrasted with effective resistance by Lydian cavalry against the invaders Strabo 5. Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus pays particularly detailed attention to the Amazons. The story of the Amazons as deriving from a Cappadocian colony of two Scythian princes Ylinos and Scolopetos is due to him.

Pliny the Elder records some surprising facts pointing to the valley of the Terme River as possibly being their home: Ammianus places them east of Tanais , as neighbouring the Alans. Procopius places them in the Caucasus. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca historica III, chapter 52 mentioned that besides Pontus Amazons existed much older race at that time entirely disappeared of Amazons from western Libya , and retells their mythological story which includes Atlantis and Greek mythology.

Although Strabo shows skepticism as to their historicity, the Amazons in general continue to be taken as historical throughout Late Antiquity. Several Church Fathers speak of the Amazons as of a real people. Solinus embraces the account of Pliny. Under Aurelianus , captured Gothic women were identified as Amazons Claudianus. The account of Justinus was influential, and was used as a source by Orosius who continued to be read during the European Middle Ages. Medieval authors thus continue the tradition of locating the Amazons in the North, Adam of Bremen placing them at the Baltic Sea and Paulus Diaconus in the heart of Germania.

Amazons continued to be discussed by authors of the European Renaissance, and with the Age of Exploration , they were located in ever more remote areas. Amazons also figure in the accounts of both Christopher Columbus and Walter Raleigh. Beside the land of Chaldea is the land of Amazonia, that is the land of Feminye.

And in that realm is all woman and no man; not as some may say, that men may not live there, but for because that the women will not suffer no men amongst them to be their sovereigns. Medieval and Renaissance authors credit the Amazons with the invention of the battle-axe. This is probably related to the sagaris , an axe-like weapon associated with both Amazons and Scythian tribes by Greek authors see also Thracian tomb of Aleksandrovo kurgan.

Paulus Hector Mair expresses astonishment that such a "manly weapon" should have been invented by a "tribe of women", but he accepts the attribution out of respect for his authority, Johannes Aventinus. Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso contains a country of warrior women, ruled by Queen Orontea; the epic describes an origin much like that in Greek myth, in that the women, abandoned by a band of warriors and unfaithful lovers, rallied together to form a nation from which men were severely reduced, to prevent them from regaining power.

Classicist Peter Walcot wrote, "Wherever the Amazons are located by the Greeks, whether it is somewhere along the Black Sea in the distant north-east, or in Libya in the furthest south, it is always beyond the confines of the civilized world. The Amazons exist outside the range of normal human experience.

Nevertheless, there are various proposals for a historical nucleus of the Amazons of Greek historiography, the most obvious candidates being historical Scythia and Sarmatia in line with the account by Herodotus , but some authors prefer a comparison to cultures of Asia Minor or even Minoan Crete.

Speculation that the idea of Amazons contains a core of reality is based on archaeological findings from burials, pointing to the possibility that some Sarmatian women may have participated in battle. These findings have led scholars to suggest that the Amazonian legend in Greek mythology may have been "inspired by real warrior women". Evidence of high-ranking warrior women comes from kurgans in southern Ukraine and Russia. During the time that the Scythians advanced into Asia and achieved near- hegemony in the Near East, there was a period of twenty-eight years when the men would have been away on campaigns for long periods.

During this time the women would not only have had to defend themselves, but to reproduce, and this could well be the origin of the idea that Amazons mated once a year with their neighbours, if Herodotus actually based his accounts on fact. Before modern archaeology uncovered some of the Scythian burials of warrior-maidens entombed under kurgans in the region of Altai Mountains and Sarmatia, [] [] giving concrete form at last to the Greek tales, the origin of the Amazon story had been the subject of speculation among classics scholars.

While some regard the Amazons as a purely mythical people, others assume an historical foundation for them. The deities worshipped by them were Ares who is consistently assigned to them as a god of war, and as a god of Thracian and generally northern origin and Artemis , not the usual Greek goddess of that name, but an Asiatic deity in some respects her equivalent.

It is conjectured that the Amazons were originally the temple-servants and priestesses hierodulae of this goddess; and that the removal of the breast corresponded with the self-mutilation of the god Attis and the galli , Roman priests of Rhea Cybele. Another theory is that, as the knowledge of geography extended, travellers brought back reports of tribes ruled entirely by women, who carried out the duties which elsewhere were regarded as peculiar to man, in whom alone the rights of nobility and inheritance were vested, and who had the supreme control of affairs.

Hence arose the belief in the Amazons as a nation of female warriors, organized and governed entirely by women. Viirtheim De Ajacis origine, , the Amazons were of Greek origin [ When Minoan archeology was still in its infancy, nevertheless, a theory raised in an essay regarding the Amazons contributed by Lewis Richard Farnell and John Myres to Robert Ranulph Marett 's Anthropology and the Classics , [] placed their possible origins in Minoan civilization, drawing attention to overlooked similarities between the two cultures.

According to Myres, [] the tradition interpreted in the light of evidence furnished by supposed Amazon cults seems to have been very similar and may have even originated in Minoan culture. Francisco de Orellana gave the Amazon river its name after reporting pitched battles with tribes of female warriors, whom he likened to the Amazons. The city of Samsun in modern-day Turkey features a recently constructed "Amazon Village" museum, created to bring attention to the legacy of the Amazons and to generate both academic interest and popular tourism.

In Greece, female equestrians are also called "Amazons" Greek: Amazons became an important subject of the fine arts around , especially in the work of the Munich painter and sculptor Franz Stuck — From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Amazon disambiguation.

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