{"id":370,"date":"2016-11-30T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/?post_type=myths&p=370"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:40:53","slug":"the-amazons","status":"publish","type":"myths","link":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/myths\/the-amazons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Greek Mythology<\/a>, the Amazons were a tribe of entirely female warriors<\/b>. It was believed that the Amazons lived in Themiscyra<\/b> near the Black Sea. This area is now Turkey, Eastern Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amazons were famous for being all women and for hating men<\/b>. No men were allowed to live alongside the Amazons. They were an entirely female tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to continue to produce future generations, Greek Mythology says that the Amazon women used to go and visit the nearby male tribe, the Gargareans<\/b>, once a year. The Gargareans was a tribe made entirely of men, and the Amazons used them purely for procreation<\/b>, sometimes forcing the men to mate with them. Neither the Amazons nor the Gargareans could survive unless the two tribes came together to create children.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Amazon women hated men so much that they would only keep the daughters<\/b> that they gave birth to. Any male children were killed, left to die in the forests or returned back to their fathers in the Gargarean tribe.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most famous Amazon queens were Queen Penthesilia<\/b> and her sister, Queen Hippolyta<\/b><\/a>. Penthesilia took part in the Trojan War<\/a>: the infamous mythical battle between the Greeks and the Spartans at the city of Troy. Greek Mythology says that Queen Hippolyta was given a magic girdle<\/b> by her father Ares<\/a>, the Greek God of War, and later obtained by Hercules<\/b> during the \u2018Labours of Hercules<\/a>\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Facts About the Amazons:<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n