The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world

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Start gratis på shopify.com Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. If you know anything about the Amazons of ancient legend, it will be that they were fearsome female fighters who bravely battled against the male heroes of Greek legend. But according to Professor David Braun, author of Amazon's The History Behind the Legend, these figures were far more interesting than just being formidable warrior women. And in today's episode, he explained why to David Musgrove.

But before we find out, we need to be clear whether the Amazons even existed at all. So that's the first question that they covered. Well, it's it's a really good question. It's obviously in many ways fundamental, though I have to say I think it's also a dead end. Really, in English, there are two ways that we use the word Amazons.

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