She was responding to a wry tweet from Melissa Silverstein, founder of Women and Hollywood, that compared the Amazon warrior costumes in Patty ... worn by ancient Greek and Roman soldiers.

These were the fierce warrior women of Ancient Greek lore who supposedly sparred with Hercules, lived in lesbian matriarchies and hacked off their breasts so they could better fire their arrows.

The audio is available here. For centuries, scholars assumed that Greek myths about fierce warrior women they called Amazons were just that — myths. But new archaeology confirms what modern ...

The Scythians were tribes of nomadic warriors who moved around Siberia between 200 and 900 B.C. Amazons, originally a Greek term for warrior women, are widely acknowledged to have been a common ...

Does Hera look different if we see her through a female lens?” Image There’s a long literary tradition of revising and reimagining Greek myths ... romance between the warrior Achilles and ...

Costume designer Gersha Phillips drew upon African tradition while creating outfits for “The Woman King,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s movie about female ... Aspiring warrior Nawi (Thuso Mbedu ...