| In works of art, fighting between Amazons and Greeks is represented as similar to combats between Greeks and centaurs. |
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| Take for example the important sheet from Edinburgh that shows a Drowning of Leander on the recto and The Battle of the Amazons on the verso. |
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| What makes all this more ironic is that these exhausted women were the original Amazons, the warrior caste Alexander supposedly would not fight. |
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| While Boadicea was a warrior woman, the Amazons were not, primarily because their existence is wholly fictitious. |
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| Theseus defeated the Amazons in battle and took one of their captive leaders as his wife or concubine. |
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| Still, there seems to be a kind of secretive admiration of the Amazons by the male myth makers. |
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| Eleanor and some of her entourage appeared before the barons dressed as Amazons, declaring their willingness to fight for Christ. |
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| Hippolyta is the conquered queen of Amazons who marries Theseus and returns to Athens with him. |
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| The very idea of the Amazons, of ruthless women warriors who live apart from men, excites people at a deep level. |
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| Perhaps the most widely known of legendary women warriors are the Greek Amazons and the Nordic Valkyries. |
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| The ancient Greeks believed that there had been Amazons and celebrated their victory over them. |
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| The ancient Herodotus thought the Amazons did exist, but were extinct by the time that he lived. |
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| More than other parrot species, Amazons are well known for their strong or often moody characters. |
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| The friar called them Amazons, after the fabled female warriors of Greek mythology, and the Amazon River was named for them. |
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| Some radical historians, Bacher said, believed the tribe was descended from seafaring Scythian Amazons fleeing the encroachment of imperial Greece. |
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| Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons. |
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| Historians Hippocrates and Herodotus thought that the Amazons had to fight until they had scalped three enemies before they were permitted to mate. |
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| In 1974, EMI produced a film version of the Swallows and Amazons, starring Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser. |
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| It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. |
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| The legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise, peopled by black women Amazons. |
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| On the same map can be found descriptions of legendary Cathay, king Prester John in Ethiopia, and the race of Amazons in Russia. |
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| Current editions of the Swallows and Amazons series have illustrations which were drawn by Ransome himself. |
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| The first edition of Swallows and Amazons was published almost without illustrations. |
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| She enjoyed traveling and her interests also included breeding llamas and parrots, particularly large hookbills, Amazons and greys. |
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| Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons. |
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| She often imagines her own adventures and becomes a hero in the novels, such as when she wins the war in Swallows and Amazons or finds an underground spring in Pigeon Post. |
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| Writing shortly after Alexander's death, another participant, Onesicritus, invented a tryst between Alexander and Thalestris, queen of the mythical Amazons. |
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| The Swallows and Amazons series has strong links with the real world. |
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| The Old Man of Coniston is the inspiration for Kanchenjunga, the mountain Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons climb in the Swallows and Amazons novel Swallowdale. |
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| After a summer of teaching Collingwood's grandchildren to sail in Swallow II in 1928, Ransome wrote the first book in his Swallows and Amazons series of books. |
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| Two or three of the Swallows and Amazons books have less realistic plots. |
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