Amazons

Before the myth, there were the women.The warrior women of the Pontic steppe — the wide grassland north of the Black Sea — were real. They rode and they shot and they governed and they fought, and the Greeks who encountered them on the trade routes of the Black Sea coast made them into a legend: the Amazons, the daughters of Ares, the all-female nation of warriors on the edge of the known world. T...