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The Amazons
In Our Time: Culture
English - April 11, 2013 10:30 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 529 ratingsHistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Amazons, a tribe of formidable female warriors first described in Greek literature. They appear in the Homeric epics and were described by Herodotus, and featured prominently in the decoration of Greek vases and public buildings. In later centuries, particularly in the Renaissance, the Amazons became a popular theme of literature and art. After the discovery of the New World, the largest river in South America was named the Amazon, since the warlike tribes inhabiting the river's margins reminded Spanish pioneers of the warriors of classical myth.
With:
Paul Cartledge
A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University
Chiara Franceschini
Teaching Fellow at University College London and an Academic Assistant at the Warburg Institute
Caroline Vout
University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Producer: Thomas Morris.