The definitive work to understand the emergence and development of a myth so fascinating that it has influenced different cultures throughout time and space and that has come down to us today with all its force.

Emerging as a counterpoint to patriarchal society, contact with societies in which women could even hold political power or news about the horse archers of the steppes, gave shape to the myth of the Amazons. They are not simple warriors but members of a society without men or organized under the preeminence of the female sex. This tradition, that of the Amazons, as well as the ethnographic data on the warriors related to them, will have a clear influence on the "feminist" ideas of Plato, those of the Cynics and those of the first Stoics.
Later, they will pass to the Islamic world through the translations of ancient Greek works and the news that will arrive about the mythical "City of Women." Averroes was also greatly influenced by Plato's ideas in his social criticism of the situation of women in the Islamic world.
Western Christianity inherited the myth of the Amazons from the old Greco-Roman world. In some cases, they were part of the Antichrist's troops and in others, defenders of the Christian faith.
Finally, the Spanish conquistadors projected their image of the Amazons onto the New World. This is evident in examples such as California, named after the country of the queen of the Amazons who appears in "Las sergas de Esplandián", a very popular book of chivalry in the 16th century, or the Amazon River, which received this name after an armed confrontation between the conquistadors and Indian warriors, in whom the Spanish believed they saw the mythical Amazons.