One of the best known of the ancient myths concerns Amazons. According to Herodotus's account, the Amazons were a race of warrior women, enemies of the Greeks, who lived in the steppelands of what is now Ukraine and southern Russia - lands known in Herodotus' time as Scythia (to the west of the Don River) and Sauromatia (later called Sarmatia, to the east of the Don). This myth has exerted a powerful hold over the male psyche. ...

The Prehistory of Sex
Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture
by Timothy Taylor
Bantam Books, NY. 1997.
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