Last of the Amazons

Synopsis of Last of the Amazons

An epic novel of love and war that brings to life the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens, embarks on a journey that takes him to the land of tal Kyrte, the 'free people,' a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called 'Amazons'. Bound to each other as lovers and fighters, they distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of 'civilization'. So when the great war queen Antiope falls in love with Theseus and flees with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rises up in fury. 'Last of the Amazons' is not simply a masterful tale of war and revenge. Steven Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarily vivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her, to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who comes to cherish the wild Amazon ways.