I've always understood that Amazon came from Greek "a-mazos", meaning
without breasts, because Amazon women were purported to have cut off their
right breasts in order to make it easier to use a bow and javelin. At any
rate, that's what Webster gives as the etymology.
>1) AMAZO:NES (akin to Armenian Amis-Zon "Moon Woman" ?)
>They've ever apperead in Greek myths as adversaries of heroes, Theseus,
>Herakles and Bellerophontes. Myrina (Bathyaia)'s tomb is cited at Iliad.
>Diodorus Siculus mentioned euhemerist tales envolving Lybian Amazons,
>Atlants and Gorgons.
>
P.S. Thanks for the info on Dalmatian and Sardinian.
Chris
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