Last of the Amazons

‘I too was numbered among them on the day when the Amazons came, women the equal of men.’ In or around 1250 BC, so Plutarch tells us, Theseus, king, of Athens and slayer of the Minotaur, set sail on a journey that brought him to the land of tal Kyrte, the ‘Free People’, a nation of fiercely proud and passionate warrior women whom the Greeks called ‘Amazons’. Owing allegiance to no man. the Amazons distrusted these newcomers with their boastful talk ot cities and civilivation. And when their illustrious war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled to Athens with him, they were outraged. Raising a vast army, the Amazon tribes marched on Athens. History tells us thev could not win, but for a briel and glorious moment the Amazons held the Attic world in thrall before vanishing into the immortal realms of myth and legend. Echoing to the sound of brutal battles fought hand-to-hand and peopled with wonderfully realized flesh and blood characters, this moving tale of love and war, honour and revenge brings the ancient world to brilliant life as it recounts the extraordinary, near-forgotten story of the last of the Amazons…