Friday, June 09, 2006
Amazons
Robert E Howard probably based Red Sonya on the Scythian warrior women of ancient Greece. This territory was also part of the vast sprawling ancient loosely-governed empire sometimes known as Cimmeria in about 1200BC.
The Wikipedia entry on Amazons is excellent and can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
I'm hurrying this blog entry a little because I keep getting cut off.
A more fun site is this one with lots of terrific links:
http://folk.uio.no/thomas/lists/amazon-connection.html
The Wikipedia entry on Amazons is excellent and can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons
I'm hurrying this blog entry a little because I keep getting cut off.
A more fun site is this one with lots of terrific links:
http://folk.uio.no/thomas/lists/amazon-connection.html
