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Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality

Behind the Aegis

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1. WONDER WOMAN & XENA!!!

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 01:33 AM

Jan 2015

I have been fascinated by Amazons since I was little. I was pleased when they were shown not to be "just myths" as many believed. Personally, I feel some believed it because how could women really be warriors. What was really neat about "Xena" was the show portrayed Amazons as coming from all over the ancient world, not just Greece, which, as I recall, maybe poorly, an article years ago about that portrayal being one of the first to show Amazons as something other than Hellenistic.

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