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Definitions of amazons in various dictionaries:
noun - a large strong and aggressive woman
noun - (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
noun - a major South American river
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| One legend claims they fought in the Trojan War under their queen, Penthesilea |
| Hercules had to fetch the girdle of Hippolyta, the queen of these women |
| These fabled warrior women liked to hang out in Asia Minor |
| This group of warriors called Hippolyta their queen |
| In mythology these warrior women tolerated men only in a servile capacity |
| In mythology, Hippolyta was a queen of these warriors |
| In Greek mythology, they were the race of warrior women led by Hippolyta |
| Slain by Achilles, Penthesilea was queen of these warrior women |
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| Plural form of amazon. |
| a member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia or elsewhere on the edge of the known world. |
| A river in South America, flowing over 6,683 km (4,150 miles) through Peru, Colombia, and Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean. It drains two fifths of the continent and in terms of water flow it is the largest river in the world. |
| A member of a legendary race of female warriors believed by the ancient Greeks to exist in Scythia (near the Black Sea in modern Russia) or elsewhere on the edge of the known world. |
| A parrot, typically green, found in Central and South America. |
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| In Greek mythology, the Amazons (Greek: , Amazónes, singular , Amazn) were a tribe of women warriors related to Scythians and Sarmatians. Apollonius Rhodius, at Argonautica, mentions that Amazons were the daughters of Ares and Harmonia (a nymph of the Akmonian Wood). They were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war.Herodotus and Strabo place them on the banks of the Thermodon, while Diodorus giving the account of Dionysius of Mitylene, who, on his part, drew on Thymoetas, states that before the Amazons of the Thermodon there were, much earlier in time, the Amazons of Libya. These Amazons started from Libya, passed through Egypt and Syria, and stopped at the Caïcus in Aeolis, near which they founded several cities. Later, he says, they established Mytilene a little way beyond the Caïcus. Aeschylus, in Prometheus Bound, places the original home of the Amazons in the country about Lake Maeotis and they later moved to Themiscyra on the Thermodon. Homer tells that the |