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"We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women."

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About Adrienne Mayor

Adrienne Mayor is an American historian of ancient science and classical folklore. She is known for scholarship on ancient myths, natural history, and warfare, including work on the concept of Amazons in antiquity. She is affiliated with Stanford University as a research scholar.

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