Adrienne Mayorさんのイラストまとめ

"A beautiful book. . . . The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor is required reading."---Anna Meldolesi, Corriere della Sera
#AncientAmazons

Amazingly similar to Alexander the Great's glass diving bell & those used by deep-sea sponge divers described by Aristotle! https://t.co/QO6qDi7zz8

Mulan, warrior woman of ancient China
Her ancestry was likely steppe nomad

@VeraCausa9 calls to mind a drone--the machine-like Eagle of Zeus crafted by Hephaestus & other mechanical birds discussed pp 127-28 #GodsandRobots

@thiliel @BeccaMerkelbach here are some medieval giantesses for you
Gertha/Gerda and Gonlod

@holland_tom Custer's Crow Scout Curly quoted on pp 298-99 #FossilLegends
The Crow people often observed dinosaur and other fossils weathering out of the soil

2,400 years ago an artist carved this pair of beautiful #AncientAmazons
on glass crystal gem
thanks Donna Dodson
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Running figure made of stacked glass, Athens

Ethiopian archers on ancient Greek perfume/oil jars
5th century BC
#AfricanAmazons #AncientAmazons

Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse
by IrenHorrors, Deviant Art