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Classics scholar and acclaimed writer Adrienne Mayor says new archaeological discoveries of battle-scarred women buried with their weapons show that the ancient stories of Amazon warriors were more than a myth. Mayor explains how these stories – equally ones of love as of war – arose in different cultures from Greece to Egypt, Persia, India, Central Asia and China. And she provides answers to how they lived, whether they mutilated their bodies to become better archers, whether they maimed or killed their sons and what their sex lives were really like.

Mayor is a research scholar in classics and history of science at Stanford University and author of several books including Rome’s Deadliest Enemy, a finalist for the US National Book Award and named as one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post.