Talk:Amazons

The suggested Persian etymology doesn't need to cite a source

If you look it up on Google translate from Persian to English, Hameis all women. You don't source words in another language or our language for that matter.h Zan 2603:8000:3400:6A7:9DCD:1D6F:8770:F85A (talk) 02:47, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology

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Nazi Amazonian revels

This phrase is perfectly legitimate in context but "bare-breasted variety show girls of the SS-Cavalry" is one of the most memorable phrases I've seen in one of our articles. Great title for a 1970s exploitation movie! Pascalulu88 (talk) 16:39, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Alexander and the Amazons

While you'd think "Alexander has a baby with an Amazon" is the sort of thing you'd find in the Alexander Romance, the Thalestris story is not in there (certainly not in the passage linked, which concerns a different supposed interaction between Alexander and the Amazons). A recent and conveniently online secondary source is Adrienne Mayor, "When Alexander Met Thalestris," History Today 65 (2015): 10-27, via ResearchGate, and the fullest ancient account is that of Quintus Curtius Rufus 6.5.24-32, online via the Hathi Trust. 198.7.247.59 (talk) 17:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 Summer 2026

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Ah. Classwork...

That would explain why the Ancient Greek appears to be completely incorrect, Wiktionary having its entry under Ἀμαζών with an omega, not an omicron, with copious citations (as opposed to absolutely none here). — LlywelynII 12:41, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

@LlywelynII: The article is correct. As can be seen at wikt:Ἀμαζών#Declension, the plural form of Ἀμαζών is Ἀμαζόνες. See 259 in Smyth. I have sourced the form in the article, though. – Michael Aurel (talk) 07:32, 17 September 2026 (UTC)