Postcolonial Amazons

Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in the ancient world, resituating the Amazons in the broader context from which they have been extracted and illustrating that although they were the quintessential example of female masculinity in ancient Greek thought, they were not the only instance of this phenomenon.