Adrienne Mayor

Quotes

• “We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products o...”
• “I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equalit...”
• “The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. ...”
• “In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who...”
• “It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just t...”
• “We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals...”