Did the Amazons really exist?

Historian Adrienne Mayor delves into their complicated history.

Legends of formidable female warriors known as the Amazons permeate ancient lore – and, with the Wonder Woman franchise, modern-day movie screens. In particular, Ancient Greek writers loved spinning tales of how the Amazon women matched men in their traditional domain of war-making.

Mythographer Apollodorus, writing in the first or second century A.D., dubbed the Amazons “a people great in war,” who were so committed to martial endeavors that they “pinched off the right breasts that they might not be trammelled by them in throwing the javelin, but they kept the left breasts, that [their offspring] might suckle.”

The Amazons: The Real Female Fighters Dispelling Myth & Legend:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/amazons-0012315

Dahomey Amazons: The Greatest Women Warriors in History:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Fascinating-Story-of-the-Greatest-Women-Warriors-in-History