Article: `Last of the Amazons' and `The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle' by Steven Pressfield.(The Seattle Times)

Article: STEVEN PRESSFIELD DRIVES A GOOD STORY IN GOLF ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 23, 1995 ;     649 words ... ... Scott Peck and Thomas Moore had collaborated to write a novel about golf, this would be it. In fact, the author is Steven Pressfield, a screenwriter known for, among other things, his work on Steven Seagal films. He offers a story which is preposterous ...

Article: Last of the Amazons. (book review)
Book;  May 1, 2002 ;     369 words ...STEVEN PRESSFIELD Doubleday 352 pages **** A group of brave female warriors are at the turbulent center of this tale of violence and passion from ...

Article: Women warriors: are the tales about Amazons only tales? ...
Dig;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the women warriors known to history as Amazons have been passed down from generation ... According to Herodotus: Courageous and bold, Amazons fought with great dignity. They were ... the Scythians later began to court the Amazons. In time, the two nations united, but ...

Article: Amazons in the Underworld: Gender, the Body, and Power in ...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... pseudonymous (and probably co-authored) Amazons, a novel that has been all but ignored ... relationships between men and women. That Amazons was published under the name Cleo Birdwell ... which he engages more frequently in post-Amazons novels--makes it central to any analysis ...

Encyclopedia entry: Amazons
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ...Amazons A legendary nation of female warriors ... Sea. The distinctiveness of the fabled Amazons lay in their being an all-female tribe ... hunting, and fighting. These legendary Amazons appear in several Greek fables. The Iliad ...

Article: Islands of Women and Amazons.(Review)(Brief Article)
off our backs;  October 1, 2000 ;     651 words ... ... University of Texas Press, 1999. Who were the Amazons? How have they been used as symbols? This book focuses on how' people have seen the Amazons. The ancient Greeks believed that there had been Amazons and celebrated their victory over them ...

Article: Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and ...
Journal of American Folklore;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities. By ... index.) In Islands of Women and Amazons, Batya Weinbaum intends to show how ... nonclassical scholars in the discussions of Amazons in antiquity leads to errors. For example ...