Antigone 25
Antiope (Amazon)
and Theseus 9–10
du Boccage Les Amazones 176–7
possibly in Bassae Frieze 21
Rubens/Brueghel version 164–5
Antwerp, Catholic renaissance 163–4
Apassionata, horseback archery show 118
Aphrodite, Amazons and, Wonder Woman version 256–7
Apollo
Apollo Epikourios statue, Bassai 17–18
in Bassae Frieze 20, 22–3
Arcadia, Bassae 17–20
Archaeology magazine 73
archery, flight 106
archery, horseback, Kassai revives as sport 106–21
Areopagus 1–2
Amazons at 9–10
Ares (god of war) 1, 4
Argippaei, bald Scythians 35, 54
Argos 3
Ariapeithes, Scythian king, and Olbia 32
Arimaspians 53
Aristotle, on polis xvii, xviii
Aronova, Raisa 227
Arrian (Greek general), and Alans 102
Artemis (Diana), in Bassae Frieze 20, 22
Aryans see Alans
Arzhan kurgans 56
kurgan 1, artefacts 56, 58–9
kurgan 2, artefacts 59–61
Arzu 264
Assam silk 86
Assyrians
and Cimmerians 31, 37
and Scythians 88
Atakpamé people, Togo 193
Athena, Parthenon statue 16–17
Athenian men
and gods 2
women as threat 25
xenophobia 25–6
Athens, early 1–2
429 BC plague 17
Amazons attack 2, 9–10
council 1–2
athletes, modern 49
Aurelian, Amazon captives, Gibbon on 171
aviation, women and, USSR 216–40
Aviation Group 122 219–40
Aymyrlyg cemetery, remains 61–7
Azov Sea 7–8, 237
Baga Turgen Gol (BTG) burial area 88–91
Basques 265
Bassae (Bassai) temple 17–20
Bassae Frieze 19–26
Bassi, Laura, professorship in anatomy 179
Batman (Detective Comics) 252
Batman v. Superman, Wonder Woman in 262
Bayan-Ölgii 88
Bayol, Jean, on Dahomey 207–8
Beecroft, John 206
Begikhani, Nazand 272
Béhanzin, King of Dahomey, fights French 209–11
Bella (Kassai’s horse) 110
Benedict XIV, Pope, support to women in science 178–80
Benin
Dahomey, ahosi ‘Amazons’ 191–212
slave trade 193, 196, 197, 198, 206
Bershanskaya, Yevdokiya, Night Bombers 223, 230
Bezos, Jeff, and amazon.com 156–7
bioarchaeology 62
black Sparta (Dahomey) 191–212
Black Sea Scythians 5, 7–8, 26, 31, 32, 35–7, 59
kurgans 52–4
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Teseida delle nozze di Emilia 124–5
Bocher, Joachim 18–19
Bochkareva, Maria, Women’s Battalion of Death (WWI) 216
Bologna Academy 179
Brazilian river lands, ‘Amazon’ communities 138–49
Britain, Sarmatians as Roman troops 102
British Museum, and Bassae Frieze 20–2
Brok-Beltsova, Galina, on USSR women fliers 224–5
Bronze Age peoples, inner Asia 30–1
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder 163
Brueghel, Jan, and Rubens, The Battle of the Amazons 163–5
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger 163
BTG (Little Turgen River) massacre/ burial area 88–91
Bug River, Herodotus on 31–2
Burton, Richard
with East India Company 194–6
in East Africa 195–6
in West Africa 196–206
on Dahomey women’s army 200–6
takes British gifts to Glele 197–206
Byrne, Ethel 244
Byrne, Olive
and Family Circle magazine 250, 252, 253, 258–9
and Marston 246–53, 258
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez, ‘finds’ Amazon California 133–4
Califia, Montalvo’s Amazon queen 128–9
California, Montalvo’s fictional Amazon island 128–34
‘found’ by Cabrillo 133–4
Carpathian Mountains 32
Carter, Lynda 261
Carvajal, Gaspar de, on Amazon river communities 137–49
account lost until 19th century 147–8
Caspian Sea 38
Sarmatians east of 94
centauromachies art theme 16, 21–2
Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads 69
Centre of Horseback Combat 118–20
Cervantes, Don Quixote 129
Chateaubriand, Paradise Lost translation 173
Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‘The Knight’s Tale’ 125
Chekhov, Anton, ‘The Steppe’ 33
China, and Tuva 56
bride carriage 77
beads, Pokrovka 98
Chisholm, Shirley 260–1
Chugunov, Konstantin 60
Churchill, Winston, on Dum-Dum bullets 208
Cimmerians 31, 37
clay-shoveller’s fracture 65
Cockerell, Charles 20
Columbus, Christopher, and Americas 131–2
Columbus, Diego, and Esplandian 131
Comédie Française 177
comic books 251–8
early, accused of fascism 252
Condamine, Charles Marie de la
on Amazons 154–5, 171, 173–4
on New World 178
Cortés, Francisco 133
Cortés, Hernán, seeks fictional Amazon California 133–4
Cotonou, French at 207, 208
repel Dahomean attack 208
Cousins-Greenwood, Karl 119–20
Cousins-Greenwood, Zana, and horseback archery 118–20
Crimea Scythian dynasties 37
cultural evolution, tracing 214
Curtius, on Alexander and Amazons 39–41
Cyrus the Great, and Scythians 37–8, 42, 127
d’Alembert, Jean 170
Dahomey
France and 207–12
human sacrifices, Burton on 202–3
women’s army, ahosi ‘Amazons’ 191–212
Burton on 200–6
women ‘reborn’ as men 204–5
women’s shadow administration 192, 198–9
Dalzel, Archibald, on Dahomey women bodyguards 193
‘Dan Dare Pilot of the Future’ xvi
Danube and Don kurgans 55
Danube, grassland culture limit 31
Darius the Great 71
failed invasion of Scythian lands 94–6
Darwin, Charles, Origin of Species 196, 214
Davis-Kimball, Jeannine
on Golden Man (woman) 68–74
on Pokrovka kurgans 96–101
Warrior Women 70, 97
Dayika Gulé 271
DC Comics, formerly Detective Comics, Marston and 253
defenestrations, Prague 160
Delle, Todd, and horseback archery 115
Democratic Union Party, Syria 272
Detective Comics, Batman 252
Diana the Wonder Woman 241, 255–8, 259, 260
Diderot, Denis 170
Diodorus, on Hippolyte 6, 7
Dionysus (Bacchus) ritual 184
Dnieper River 54
Herodotus on 31–2
Scythian dynasties 37
Don River 7–8, 55, 94–5
Germans cross 228
Scythian dynasties 37
du Boccage, Anne-Marie le Page
La Colombiade: Faith Transported to the New World 178, 180
Les Amazones 173–8
Paradise Los
t verse translation 173
salon 172–3, 178
du Châtelet, Émilie, on Newton’s Principia 179–80
Duncan, John, on Dahomey women’s army 193
Dzhatkambaev, Auelkhan, on Altai and Ice Maiden 83–4
Dzhigitovka Federation, horseback archery 120
Eagle comic xvi
egalitarian societies 215
Egypt, and Cimmerians 37
El Dorado (Golden Man) land, search for 134–49
Elgin Marbles 20
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 149–51
Eller, Cynthia, Gentlemen and Amazons 215n48
embalming
Ice Maiden 81–2
Pazyryk 76–7, 87
Scythians, Herodotus on 35–6, 76–7
Encyclopedia Britannica 248, 249
Engeländer, Pettra, and horseback archery 117–18
Engels, Aviation Group 122 at 220–5
Enlightenment
feminist, du Boccage, Les
Amazones 173–7
rationalism 169–80
Eriboea 7
Erkinova, Rimma 83
Esplandian (Montalvo), influence 128–34
etymology, folk 44–5
Eumenides (Furies) 2
Eurystheus, King of Argos/ Mycenae/Tiryns 3–4
Everett, Dan, and Piraha people 145–6
experimental psychology 245–60
and movies 249–50
Family Circle magazine 250, 252, 253, 258–9
fashionable mythology 24–5
female genital mutilation 48
feminist Enlightenment, du
Boccage, Les Amazones 173–7
feminist writings, United States 241–4, 260–1
Fernando Po, Burton at 196
Fighter 586th Regiment (USSR) fliers 221–2, 228–9
1st Squadron underused at Stalingrad 228
2nd Squadron takes down Ju-88 229
now in 296th Regiment 234–7
Yak-1s 222, 228
fighting, injuries from 64–7
Firestone, Shulamith 260–1
Flesh and the Devil (Garbo movie) 249
flight archery 106
folk etymology 44–5
Fon people, Dahomey 192–212
Fontenelle, and du Boccage 173
on Les Amazones 177
foot-binding 48
Forbes, Frederick, on Dahomey women’s army 193, 204–5, 206
France, Encyclopédistes 170–3
Franco-Dahomean war 207–12
Dahomey women’s army and 208–11
French invade Dahomey 209–11
French repeating rifles and Dum-Dum bullets 208–11
Franklin, Benjamin, and du Boccage 180
Friedan, Betty 260–1
Furies (Eumenides) 2
Gárdonyi, Géza, The Invisible Man 108–9
Gaddafi, Muammar, ‘Amazonian Guard’ 264
Gaines, Maxwell Charles
and Marston 253
comic books 251–60
Game of Thrones 129
gay community, du Boccage’s Colombiade and 180
Gelman, Polina, combat flights 226
Genghis Khan 53, 68
and archery 106, 120
Georgia
Alans as Ossetians 102
Amazon frontiers 39
German Archaeological Institute 60
German enemies, Wonder Woman and 257
Germany, Thirty Years’ War 160–2, 165–6, 168
Germany, Operation Barbarossa (WWII) 219–33
Gezo, King of Dahomey
begins women’s army 193
killed by Yoruba 197, 206
Gibbon, Edmund, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 171
doubts Amazons 171
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Forerunner (magazine) 243
Herland 243–4, 256
Women and Economics 242
ginseng, ‘evidence’ for Amazons in America 153–4
Glele, King of Dahomey
resists British treaty 197, 206
attacks Abeokuta, defeated 207
Burton’s official visit to 197–206
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
and Kleist’s Penthesilea 183, 185, 188–9
Iphigenia on Tauris 183
Werther, influence 181–2
Golden Man (woman) 69–74
Gorno Altaisk Museum, Ice Maiden at 83–4
Goths
and Alans 103
and Olbia 32n5
Grandin, Major Léonce, on Dahomey women’s army 211
grassland culture 29–37
grave robbers, Pazyryk valley 75–6
Great Salbyk Kurgan 55–5
Great Ulagan River 75
Great Wall, grassland culture limit 31
Greece, Amazons invade 9–10
Greek/Scythian commercial contact 37
Greeka.com, repeating breast myth 47
Greeks (Achaeans)
Amazons, Sarmatian women as 97
and Scythians 31
defeat Persians 16
gods, attributes 258
Siege of Troy 10–16
griffins 53
Grimmelshausen, Hans von, Simplicissimus 161–2
Gubina, Lyuba 231
gunpowder, ends mounted archery 106
Guyon, Claude, on Amazons 171
Haecht, Willem van, The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest 168
Hallerstein, Carl Haller von 20
Harris, Marvin 214–15
Harrison, John 179
Heavy Bomber 587th Regiment 221–21
Hector 3, 11
Hecuba 3, 11
Helen of Troy 3, 11
Hera and Heracles 6
Heracles (Hercules) 42
and Hippolyte’s girdle 4–7
Wonder Woman version 256–7
Hera and 6
in Bassae Frieze 20
Rubens/Brueghel version 164–5
Herberay, Nicolas de, Esplandian rewrite 129–30
Hérissé, Auguste le, on Dahomey women’s army survivors 212
Herodotus
on Amazons and Scythians 7–8
on bald/shaved/scalped Scythians 35, 54n10, 63, 76
on Persians 24
on royal burials 58–9
on Sauromatians 51, 93–6
on Scythians 31–7, 46, 51–2, 63
on strange races 64
Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, Places 45–6
Hippolyte (daughter of Ares) 4–7
and Penthesilea 12
and Theseus
Boccaccio on 124–5
girdle 4–7
possibly in Bassae Frieze 22
Rubens/Brueghel version 164–5
Rubens realist version 166–7
Wonder Woman version 256–7
Hippolytus (son of Theseus and Antiope) 9
Hisarlik see Troy 3
Hitler, Adolf, Operation Barbarossa 219–33
Hittites 3, 5
Holland, war of independence from Spain 162–3, 165–6, 168
Holloway, Elizabeth
and Marston 245–60
and Wonder Woman 253, 258, 259
Homer
Amazones antianeirai 44
and written records 10
Iliad 3
on Siege of Troy 10–11
Horse & Hound 119
horse-based cultures, injuries 62–3, 64–7
horseback archery, Kassai revives as sport 106–21
as business 114–21
hitting target 112–14
reloading 110, 111–12
skill not strength 106
horsewomen, inner Asia 29–37
Howard, Alethea, Countess of Arundel, Rubens and 168
Howard, Thomas, Earl Marshal of England 168
Hunno-Sarmatians, remains 61–7
Huns, mounted archery 109
Huntley, Marjorie, and Marston 246–8, 25
0, 256
Hurons, Amazon descent, Lafitau on 152–3, 214
Huss, Jan 160
Hyperboreans 53
Ice Maiden (Ukok Princess)
2003 earthquakes and 83–4
and Altaian nationalism 82–3
grave, Ukok Plateau 79–84
artefacts 81–2
horses 81
imported clothing 82, 86–7
not warrior 85
shaved head 87
status/identity 83–7
tattoos 81, 85–6
Ictinos (sculptor) 17
Idanthyrsus, Scythian king, and Persian invasion 94–6
Independent European Horse Archery School 117
Indo-European languages 54
International Horseback Archery Alliance 120
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon 35
Iraq, Kurdish women, fighting Daesh/IS 263–4, 268–73
Iroquois women, identified with classical Amazons 152–4
Ismagulov, Orazak, on Golden Man (woman) 71–2, 73
Issedonians 53
Issyk (Esik) kurgans 67–74
Ivakina, Nina (Komsomol) 225
Japan, horseback archery 106n22, 121
Japanese diaphragms, Sanger and 251
Jeremiah (prophet), on Scythians 88
Jerusalem artichoke 44
Joan of Arc 213
Jordana, Xavier, and BTG burial area 88–91
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 248
Journal of Archaeological Science, BTG team paper 89–90
Justinus, on Amazons 46
Kalinin, Mikhail 229
‘Kara’ Fatma, WWI Turkish army commander 266
Kassai, Lajos
Horseback Archery 108
revives horseback archery 106–21
Kazakh Institute 68
Kazakhs, Mongolia 89
headdresses 72
Kazakhstan
Golden Man (woman) 69–74
bones lost 73–4
Issyk kurgans 67–74
Saka (Sacae) 53
kurgans 67–74
Keatley, Carolyn 247
Khanem, Adela, WWI Halabja region ruler 266
Khingan Mountains 32
Khomyakova, Valeriya, takes down Ju-88 229
Kleist, General Paul von, Night Witches attack on 228
Kleist, Heinrich von 182–90
and Pfuel 187–8
Der zerbrochene Krug 185
Penthesilea 183–9
psychoanalysis 185–90
Phöbus 183
suicide with Vogel 189–90
Kleist, Ulrike von 187
Kleist island 187
Kociok, Oberfeldwebel Josef, downs 4 Night Bombers 238–9
Korea, horseback archery 121
Kotilon, Mount 17
Kuban River Scythian dynasties 37
kumiss 34, 38, 65, 71, 72, 89, 101
Kunstkammer Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography 62
Kurdish women fighters 263–73
Kurdistan no Sharia law 270
pleas for 265
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) 267
mixed-sex military wing 269–73
kurgans (Scythian grave mounds)
Akkerman kurgan 54–5
artefacts 52–3, 54–101
Arzhan kurgans 56, 58–61