Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world.
Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world.
Walter D. Penrose, Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University. He earned his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center with a dissertation entitled 'Bold with the Bow and Arrow: Amazons and the Ethnic Gendering of Martial Prowess in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures'. He specializes in the history of gender and sexuality in ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and South Asian contexts and has also published articles on gender, sexuality, and disability in the ancient Mediterranean, as well as on Sappho in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
Inhaltsangabe
* Frontmatter * List of figures * List of abbreviations * 0: Introduction * 1: Female masculinity and courage in ancient Greek thought * 2: Orientalized Amazons: from imagined to historical warrior women * 3: Postcolonial Amazons: decentering Athenian perspectives to rethink warrior women and matriarchy * 4: Greek and Persian warrior queens: Herodotus' Artemisia in ethnic perspective * 5: Hellenistic warrior queens: from the battlefield to the throne * 6: Civilized "Amazons": women bodyguards and hunters in ancient India and Persia * 7: Epilogue * Endmatter * Select bibliography * Index
* Frontmatter * List of figures * List of abbreviations * 0: Introduction * 1: Female masculinity and courage in ancient Greek thought * 2: Orientalized Amazons: from imagined to historical warrior women * 3: Postcolonial Amazons: decentering Athenian perspectives to rethink warrior women and matriarchy * 4: Greek and Persian warrior queens: Herodotus' Artemisia in ethnic perspective * 5: Hellenistic warrior queens: from the battlefield to the throne * 6: Civilized "Amazons": women bodyguards and hunters in ancient India and Persia * 7: Epilogue * Endmatter * Select bibliography * Index
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