David Braund: Amazons | Buch

Cover: 9781108834490 | Amazons | The History Behind the Legend | David Braund | Buch | 2025

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Beschreibung

The idea of the Amazons is one of the most romantic and resonant in all antiquity. Greeks were fascinated by images and tales of these fierce female fighters. At Troy, Achilles' duel with Penthesilea was a clash of superman and superwoman. Achilles won the fight, but the queen's dying beauty had torn into his soul. This vibrant new book offers the first complete picture of the reality behind the legends. It shows there was much more to the Amazons than a race of implacable warrior women. David Braund casts the Amazons in a new light: as figures of potent agency, founders of cities, guileful and clever as well as physically impressive and sexually alluring to men. Black Sea mythologies become key to unlocking the Amazons' mystery. Investigating legend through history, literature, and archaeology, the author uncovers a truth as surprising and evocative as any fiction told through story or myth.

Zusammenfassung

David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. An internationally acclaimed authority on the ancient Black Sea, his books include Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562 (Oxford University Press, 1994) and Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region: Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction: Amazons in love, war, and mind: their significance in ancient Greek culture; 1. Approaching Amazons; 2. Amazons in battle: weapons, mind and body; 3. Sex and motherhood; 4. A duel of death and desire: Penthesilea vs. Achilles; 5. Heracles' Amazon labour: Delphi, Olympia and colonial worlds; 6. Shipwreck and reptiles: the queens of southern Russia; 7. Amazon cities in Asia: Themiscyra, Ephesus and Halicarnassus; 8. The pride of Athens; 9. Artemis vs. Aphrodite: Greek women go Amazon; 10. Alexander the Great and the Amazon queen; 11. Conclusions: Amazon realities; Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781108834490
ISBN-10:	1108834493
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Braund, David
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	José Abascal, 561°, E-28003 Madrid, eugpsr@cambridge.org
Abbildungen:	30 colour illus.
Maße:	222 x 145 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	David Braund
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,574 kg