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Steven Pressfield is the author of the novels The Legend of
Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and Tides of War. He lives in Los Angeles.
Last of the Amazons
The author of the international bestsellers Tides of War and Gates of Fire delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world-a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of tal Kyrte, the "free people," a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called "Amazons." The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of "civilization." So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. Last of the Amazons is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. 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 grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a young girl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed tal Kyrte for the love of Theseus.
Steven Pressfield's Summer Reading List
Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain
A Season in Dornoch
by Lorne Rubinstein
It's Your Ship
by Michael Abrashoff
Faith of My Fathers
by Sen. John McCain
Which Lie Did I Tell?
by William Golman
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