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Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons COLU M BIA U NIVERSIT Y PRESS SA L ES A G ENT S N EW YORK L EM CKE BU ECH NER 30—32 WES T 27T E STREET L ON DON H ENRY FROWDE M R C . A EN CORN E , E. T ORON TO H ENRY FROWDE I M 25 R CH ON D STREET, W. This m on ogra p h has been a p p roved by the Dep a rtm en t of Cla ssica l Philo logy in Colu m bia U n iversity a s a con tribu tion to kn owled e rt o g wo hy f p u bli ca tion . Y G L R N . O N C A E CE H U , ha ir a C m n . H PROFESSO R A N D M RS . CLA RENCE OFFM A N YO U NG CON T EN T S CH A PTER Z I . T H E AM A ONS IN G REEK L EG END E II . T H G REAT M OT H ER III . EPH ESIAN ART EM IS L IV. ART EM IS AST RAT EIA A N D APO L O AM A Z O N IU S V. ARES CONCL U SION BIB L IOG RAPH Y CH APT ER I T H E AM AZ ONS IN G REEK L EG END The Ilia d contains two direct references to the Amazons 1 namely, in the story of Bellerophon and in a passage from 2 the famous te icho scopy. The context to which the first of these belongs is classed by critics as an echo ” from the pre Homeric saga , and therefore it may be inferred that the Amazon tradition in Greek literature dates from a time even earlier than the Homeric poems . The description of the ’ c w-ri a ve t a women here is very slight, being given by the epithet p s ' of the line : 76 T p t'ro v a ?) lca 'revr etpve v but, from the facts that battle with them is considered a severe test of the hero ’ s valour and that as warriors they are ranked with the monstrous chimaera, the fierce Solymi , and picked men of Lycia , we gather that they are conceived as beings to be feared . The scene of combat with them is Lycia . The second of the two passages cited above is more definite . Priam, exclaiming on the happy lot of Agamemnon , who has “ ’ : Oh Atre d been pointed out to him, says to Helen , happy i , ’ ! V fate s child , blessed with prosperity erily, to thee are many ! - subject, youths of the Achaeans Once did I go to vine rich Phrygia, where I beheld vast numbers of Phrygian men with - re swift moving steeds, the people of Ot u s and godlike Mygdon , a n a riu who were then encamped by the banks of the S g s . For I was numbered an ally with these on that day when the Ama zons came, pitted against men . Yet even these were not as - many as are the quick glancing Achaeans . Although the characterisation is the same as in the Bellerophon story 1 — I lia d, 6 . 16 8 195 . 2 id 1 2 - Ib . 3 . 8 19 0 . 3 b I id. 6 . 186 . 2 2 there is gain in that the impression of the Amazons as a mighty band of warriors is strengthened , also that the event has its place in the conventional chr onology of Greek legend , antedating the Trojan War . It is to be noted , moreover, that here the Amazons are the aggressors on the fi con nes of Phrygia . There is another allusion in Homer to the Amazons , although this is indirect rather than direct . It occurs in the second Ili a d book of the , where the spot of assembly for the Trojans 4 “ and their allies is designated : There is before the city a certain lofty barrow, in the plain far away , standing detached Ba tie ia on this side and on that, which men , forsooth, call , but the immortals name it the grave of swift- bounding Myrina . Here then were the Trojans numbered and their ” E allies . The scholiast and the commentary of ustatius on the passage tell that this Myrina was an Amazon , the daughter of Teucer and the wife of Dardanus , and that from her the 5 city Myrina in Aeolis was said to have been named . It seems reasonable to suppose that the commentators are correct , for in later literature we hear much of an Amazon by this name, and there is frequent mention of graves of various Amazons , here and there in Greek lands , always regarded with wonder and awe akin to the reverence with which Homer mentions the tomb of Myrina . The Amazons then, as they appear in the Homeric poems , are a horde of warrior women who strive against men , and with whom conflict is dangerous even to the bravest of heroes . They belong to Asia Minor, seemingly at home in the neigh bo u rho o d of Lycia and opponents of the Phrygians on the S a n a ri river g u s . About the grave of one of their number there lurks a hint of the supernatural. The poet does not 4 — b 2 . 81 1 I id . 1 8 5 . 5 h 2 2 l r o t l. 39 23 S o . B io d. i ra b 1 . 573 13 . 6 3 P a o C Cf. S c . 3 . 54 , 55 ; S t o , ; ; t , y ; c l B u s . O ia n H a li eu tica 3 . 4 03 H e s ch . te t a n d s . d o o c M v lv s p p , , ; y fia r a x p u o p n ; t r 28 a d D . Pe . 8 . 3 h n say whether S e was friend or foe of Troy . O the analogy of similar graves pointed out in various parts of Greece , she who lay buried there may well have been a foe , yet later Greek commentators saw in this one an ancestress of the royal line of Troy . A ethi o is In this they may have drawn on the p , which tells of an alliance between Amazons and Trojans . We pass thus from the Homeric Epic to the Epic Cycle . Proclus in the ' ‘ X o- v- o a dei a I a a r uc pn u p aa fi, whence Photius quotes excerpts , says that the last book of the Ilia d was followed by the A ethi o is Ar ctin u s circa p in five books, written by of Miletus ( “ 750 He starts the argument thus : The Amazon Penthesilea, daughter of Ares, a Thracian by birth , appears to give aid to the Trojans . In the pride of her valour Achilles slays her, and the Trojans bury her . Achilles destroys Thersites for speaking slander against him and carping at his alleged love for Penthesilea ; whence there is a division among f h i ” the Greeks in regard to the murder O T e rs te s . It is not possible to trace the story of Penthesilea beyond the date of t the A e hi op is . How much the poet made of the romantic situation drily described by Proclus , it cannot be determined , for the evidence has perished with the work . Certainly it did not lose in pathetic details at the hands of the writers and painters of later years . The outline preserved by Proclus “ ” speaks only of the alleged love of Achilles for the queen , yet that affords a starting- point for the play of much romantic 6 A ethio is fancy in subsequent times . The fact that in the p Penthesilea is called a Thracian raises the question whether the author does this lightly , or whether he has serious thought 0 S a v f r n h e r e in n h l e o o e u n im p o rta n t v e r sio n ( D a r . w Pe t e si e a is sla in b P rr h u s s n f A h h a n d o fh e r lo v e r A il s i y y , o o chill e s , h e r de a th by t e ch l e s a l a r o n v e n i n in r 1 ii 134 N o n n s r e u o e e k li e r a u r . S m . 1 . 9 u 35 . 28 g c t G t t e . Cf Q , ; , ; - H lla n in T ze z . o s t a c h . 9 9 7 Di . r e t P H m . 19 E . 4 4 1 L o e t C e . 3 , ; t. .M 9 3 , ; y p ; t . d n 4 15 4 . 2 B u s . H rn . 1 6 2 2 22 e r v . a A e . 1 . 9 1 s o 6 9 5 H . Fa b . 1 1 5 S u . ; ; t , ; yg , ; ; J t 2 . 4 id H er . 2 1 . 1 18 4 n n rn i n h r O v Pro . 3 . 9 1 . F r e v i e e o e t e e a m e n ; , ; p , o d c c c g t t t f h r t e su b e in e e k a in in s 1 .
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