Ukraine = homeland of Amazons since antiquity

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Ukrainian postage stamp "Scythian Amazon"
2002
spirit!

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Amazons in cityscape, Roman frescoes

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many have birds on their shields
some examples

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Saikal and her horse
Kalmyk warrior woman of Central Asian Manas epic
woodcut by Teodor Gercen, postage stamp, Kyrgyz 1995

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two warrior women from ancient Mongolia, 5th-4th c BC
https://t.co/xY48zf2etj
from the time of Mulan

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"Imagining the Captive Amazon"
my chapter in Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory, ed K. Moser (Brill 2020)

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Chinese and Xiongnu/Xianbei women warriors, including Mulan and others idiscussed in chapter 25
of Asia

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

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

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

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photos from "Warrior Women" TV documentary episode filmed in Kazakhstan
based on my book

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Did really have an affair with an
Map showing how Thalestris stalked Alexander
https://t.co/oJM6lPwBpn

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in Greek vase paintings use Mongolian thumb draw, like real steppe nomad mounted archers

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tiny ancient carved gem Artemis the archer goddess and a fallow deer

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