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2. Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia

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   "The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Ahosi are featured in the 2021 graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez.

3. Amazons - Wikipedia

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   The varied war weapons artifacts found in graves of numerous high-ranking Scythian and Sarmatian warrior women have led scholars to conclude that the Amazonian legend has been inspired by the real world: About 20% of the warrior graves on the lower Don and lower Volga contained women dressed for battle similar to how men dress. Armed women ...

4. Amazons (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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   Themyscirian Amazons as represented by diversified ethnicities, art by Phil Jimenez from Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins. Acantha — A senator (first appearance: Wonder Woman #10). Aella — A warrior with a particular affinity for hawks who was killed during the Amazon civil war (first appearance: Wonder Woman #1).

5. Aella (Amazon) - Wikipedia

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   Diodorus Siculus highlights her exceptional swiftness, noting that she was the first Amazon to charge Heracles in battle. [1] A hippeis rider seizes a mounted Amazon armed with a labrys by her Phrygian cap. This 4th-century AD Roman mosaic, from Daphne near Antioch-on-the-Orontes (now Antakya in Turkey), is housed in the Louvre, Paris.

6. Princess of Power - Wikipedia

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   To accompany the Filmation animated series, Mattel created a new line of toys aimed at girls - Princess of Power - with the feminine warrior-woman She-Ra (twin sister of Masters' main hero He-Man) as its main heroine. The toyline featured almost exclusively female characters, all of whom featured an emphasis on hair and clothing, with "real ...

7. Themyscira (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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   Previously known as Paradise Island and the Amazon Isles, it first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (October 1941). Themyscira is a homogeneous nation of women governed by Aphrodite's Law , which declared that the Amazons would be immortal as long as no man sets foot on their island.

8. Thundra - Wikipedia

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   Thundra was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, and first appeared in Fantastic Four #129. [2]Roy Thomas recalled the character's creation, "A 7-foot Amazon type that I conceived as an homage of sorts to characters like Kirby's Big Barda in his Fourth World by DC Comics.

9. Penthesilea - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon Klonie, after slaying her first opponent, is in turn killed. Penthesilea mows through the Greek lines, killing eight warriors, and cuts the arm off the Greek warrior who had killed Klonie. Penthesilea's Amazon comrades Bremusa, Evandre and Thermodosa fight valiantly alongside her but are slain, and so are Derinoe, Alkibie and Derimachea.