Motif
Amazonian warrior women living apart from men
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Champion Combat and Duel. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 24168-24311 confidence: high
The Amazons are described as warlike women living apart from men, renewing their numbers through temporary intercourse, burning the right breast for archery, recurring in ancient poems, and appearing in traditions involving Priam and Bellerophon.
The passage explicitly describes warlike women dwelling apart from men and recurring in ancient poems.
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