Aim and Objective

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. (Florence Nightingale)

here are a lot of unsolved mysteries of history which because of some unbelievable traits are considered as pure invention for most people of today.
Commonly, those »untrustworthy« stories are neglected by academic scientists. If Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans had thought the same way, Troy would never have been discovered and Knossos would not have been unearthed.

he myth about the Amazons takes an exceptional position in this respect. Stories about women who were able to exist without men, and furthermore could resist men in wars and even more could defeat them, something like that could - in today's academic opinion - never be true.
So this story was put in the realm of fantasy, though most of the ancient writers did not show any doubts that they considered it as true history.
As our modern imagination is unable to fancy that once a people of warlike women had existed, modern historians either neglect the very numerous ancient tradition about Amazons or lay particular stress on those aspects which are completely unrealistic.