![]() ![]() Herodotus and Strabo place them on the banks of the Thermodon River. Lysias, Isocrates, Philostratus the Elder also said that their father was Ares. Apollonius Rhodius, in his Argonautica, mentions that the Amazons were the daughters of Ares and Harmonia (a nymph of the Akmonian Wood), that they were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war. In Greek mythology, the Amazons ( Ancient Greek: Αμαζόνες Amazónes, singular Αμαζών Amazōn) were a tribe of warrior women believed to live in Asia Minor. Wounded Amazon of the Capitoline Museums, Rome File:AmazonBattle.jpgĪmazon preparing for a battle (Queen Antiop or Armed Venus), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ![]() File:Amazzone ferita - Musei Capitolini.jpg ![]() For other uses, see Amazon (disambiguation). ![]()
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