#it's partially because saying “ancient greece��� is like saying “England” and expecting everything to apply from 200 AD to modern day england
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Good afternoon, you cannot define "amazon" in greek antiquity in a self-consistent way that doesn't include every reasonable woman in the epics
#out of character#I'm playing hades again and remembering the early days of gerudo research#for a fantasy category that's so well defined and consistent in modern tropes#christ god is it difficult to include all amazons while exluding others#it's partially because saying “ancient greece” is like saying “England” and expecting everything to apply from 200 AD to modern day england#but. realstically the best way to describe an amazon without excluding them is “woman who has had violent thoughts towards men”?#you could maybe make the argument that any woman who kills a man in the epics is an amazon#and in some texts that's true#but that also includes a lot of women who are *not* supposed to be amazons thematically#because the term “amazon” has to carry a measure of fear and disgust in most texts and#listen it's complicated#all i wanted to know was about women who rode horses and we got into athenians being bizarre about gender again
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