Re: [tied] Re: Cimmerians and Amazons

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Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Cimmerians and Amazons


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, " Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...>
> wrote:
> > 1) Older pictures of Amazons show them as riders dressed in long
> trousers.
> > Please note that nobody else in the Near East was able to ride in
> that time
> > (before the Trojan war). And naturally nobody else wore long
> trousers
> > because only horse(wo)men need them. Plus, Amazons had a cap of
> Iranian
> > type. The next folk appeared in the Near East which had these
> peculiarities
> > (riders, long trousers, caps of this form) were Cimmerians. However
> all the
> > ancient Iranian tribes had this set of features.
> >
> > 2) Lysias said that Amazons were the first to mount horses and to
> use iron.
> > Until the fall of the Hittite empire the iron metallurgy was the
> monopoly of
> > Hittites, who adopted it from Hatti. The territory of Amazons was
> very close
> > to the Hattic ethnic territory so Amazons might adopted this
> technology from
> > them like Hittite.
> >
>
> Fascinating thought that women may have been the first to domesticate
> horses. They certainly seem to have an affinity for them. And
> wouldn't they be better suited to lure that shy animal into bondage,
> rather than men?
>
> Torsten



Lysias spoke not about the horse domestication - only about horseback
riding.
Greek themselves also (like all Indo-Europeans) were horse-breeders, but
used these animals mainly for chariot driving.
Horses appeared on the territory of Greece in about 19 cent. BC, even
earlier than the Mycenaean culture.

Alexander