The Amazons were supposed to have founded many towns, amongst them Smyrna, Ephesus, Sinope, and Paphos.

In the Iliad, the Amazons were referred to as Antianeirai (" those who fight like men ").

On the day before the Thesea at Athens there were annual sacrifices to the Amazons.

The birds of Ares ( Ornithes Areioi ) were a flock of feather-dart-dropping birds that guarded the Amazons ' shrine of the god on a coastal island in the Black Sea.

Two and a half months were needed to reach the city, at the cost of repeated battles against the Dahomean warriors, especially the Amazons of the King.

He and his brother Telamon were friends of Heracles, serving in his expedition against the Amazons, his war against King Laomedon, and with him in the quest for the Golden Fleece.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a style that may have inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

The Dahomey Amazons were a key aspect of his court, with armed women displayed prominently in the capital city of Abomey.

He and Peleus were also close friends with Heracles, assisting him on his expeditions against the Amazons and against Troy ( see below ).

But then ( according to Apollodorus ) the goddess Hera, making herself appear as one of the Amazons, spread a rumor among them that Heracles and his crew were actually abducting their queen.

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

Alongside Penthesilea were twelve other Amazons, including Antibrote, Ainia, and Clete.

Amazons also were said to be of Scythian origin from Colchis.

Such warrior women, indistinguishable from men, were familiar among the Scythian horsemen too ( see the entry " Amazons ") and survive among Albanian traditions as the " sworn virgins " ( virgjinesha ,).

Herodotus reported that the Sarmatians were descendants of Amazons and Scythians, and that their females observed their ancient maternal customs, " frequently hunting on horseback with their husbands ; in war taking the field ; and wearing the very same dress as the men ".

Although Strabo was sceptical about their historicity, the Amazons were taken as historical throughout late Antiquity.

The Amazons were attributed to the Circassians via the root maze.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

In the story, some Amazons were captured in battle by Greeks in Pontus ( northern Turkey ) near the river Thermodon, and the captives were loaded into three boats.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

Female shoplifters of this period were also called " Amazons " or " roaring girls.

File: Dahomey amazon1. jpg | Captives who fell into the hands of Dahomey Amazons were often decapitated

They were mostly servants, ' Amazons ' for guards, officials, maids and so on, but Mongkut acquired thirty-two wives and by the time he died, aged sixty-four, he had eighty-two children.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis.

King Houegbadja is said to have originally started the group which would become the Dahomey Amazons.

The same can be said with reference to Hercules and the Amazons whose island, according to Arabic commentaries of these Greek and Latin legends, was located in jauf Al-Andalus — that is, to the north or interior of the Atlantic Ocean.

King Houegbadja ( who ruled from 1645 to 1685 ), the third King of Dahomey, is said to have originally started the group which would become the Amazons as a corps of elephant hunters called the gbeto.

According to Strabo the Greek name Ἀμάσεια comes from Amasis, the queen of the Amazons, who were said to have lived here.

The phrase was also commonly used in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books, where it was said at least once in almost every book, most commonly by " Amazon Pirate " Nancy Blackett.

The Amazons have become associated with various historical peoples throughout the Roman Empire period and Late Antiquity.

Both Stephanus and Eustathius write of these Amazons in connection with the placename Thibais, which they report to have been derived from Thiba's name.

* Aegea, queen of the Amazons who was thought by some to have been the eponym of the Aegean Sea.

* Eurypyle, queen of the Amazons who was reported to have led an expedition against Ninus and Babylon around 1760 BC

Some Scythian-Sarmatian cultures may have given rise to Greek stories of Amazons.

Some matriarchies have been described by historian Helen Diner as " a strong gynocracy " and " women monopolizing government " and she described matriarchal Amazons as " an extreme, feminist wing " of humanity and that North African women " ruled the country politically ," and, according to Margot Adler, Helen Diner " envision a dominance matriarchy ".

According to Adovasio, Soffer, and Page, no true matriarchy is known actually to have existed, although there is evidence of Amazons and an Amazonian society having existed and some matrifocal societies do exist.

There are various forms of matriarchy, or even a utopia that resembles the Greek myth of the Amazons .... ery few modern utopias have been developed in which women are absolute autocrats.

Archaeological evidence suggests that Scythian-Sarmatian cultures may have given rise to the myth of Amazons.

" This did not entirely explain Grace's metahuman powers, however, as the Bana Amazons have only peak human level strength and conditioning while their Themyscirian Amazon cousins possess true metahuman strength.

In July 2007, Hunt got to talking about her breast removal with a twelve year old boy and told the boy that now she is like the Amazons of old who would have a breast removed so that when they went into battle they could use their bow without their breast getting in the way when they let their arrows fly.

Although parrots can be messy pets — often throwing food and damaging furniture with their beaks if they can — most parrots may be potty trained to some extent and are generally odorless ; however, certain species of Amazons and Pionus have a distinctive odor most owners find pleasant.

In its range the yellow shoulder patch and extensive yellow on the head distinguish the Yellow-shouldered Amazon from other Amazona species, which have red or orange on the shoulder and less yellow on the head ( the Orange-winged Amazon, which has as much yellow to the head as some Yellow-shouldered Amazons, has a blue ocular region ).

The third book, written two years after the first books were published, gives women advice on how to win and keep the love of a man (" I have just armed the Greeks against the Amazons ; now, Penthesilea, it remains for me to arm thee against the Greeks ...").

The player assumes the role of Joe King, pilot for hire and owner of the Amazon Queen airplane of the title, who crash-lands in the Amazon jungle and subsequently has to save not only his passenger, the famous movie star Faye Russel, but also an entire tribe of Amazon women and even the world from a mad scientist and his lederhosen company, who have concocted a vile scheme to turn Amazons into Dinosaur warriors using his DinoRay invention.

Hippolyte, impressed with Hercules and his exploits, agreed to give him the belt and would have done so had Hera not disguised herself and walked among the Amazons sowing seeds of distrust.