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Heroes of old had encountered Amazons in the martial womenâs kingdom, Themiscyra, on the southern shores of the Black Sea. Amazons had invaded Greece, their advance halted in a great battle. Herodotus related how they had been captured, carried away in Greek ships and escaped to the banks of the river Don, where they intermarried with Scythian tribesmen.
No one knew where the name âAmazonâ came from, so the Greeks claimed it was derived from a-mazdos â without a breast: these fearsome women cut off their right breasts to remove an obstruction to the bowstring, it was claimed.
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 In the grasslands of inner Asia, from the Black Sea to western China, Scythian women had the same skills as their men: wielding bows, riding and herding animals, fighting â and dying from their injuries. Their remains have been found in tomb-mounds from the Crimea to western China.
For centuries, women warriors en masse have been dubbed âAmazonsâ. Regiments of such women existed in Dahomey (in whatâs now Benin) and in the Soviet air force, and the female fighters of Kurdistan have a formidable reputation.Â
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In 2017, Hollywood remade the Amazon myth in a film with the tagline: âBefore she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, Princess of the Amazons.â
The link between the two legends makes a convoluted story, its origins stretching back a century to the struggle for womenâs rights.
Wonder Woman made her debut in All Star Comics in December 1941, introduced with a semi-Greek backstory as the Amazonian princess of Paradise Island (later Themiscyra).
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