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Description

A clip from \"The Amazons\" by Adrienne Mayor. Academic material with specific vocabulary delivered in a fluent and engaging way.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
in the Greek myths, Amazon's always die young and beautiful. But a short, splendid life and violent death in battle was the perfect heroic ideal in myth. Indeed, this destiny clears after Aton was what every great Greek hero crave for himself. One cannot help but notice that in the Greek myths and in some historical accounts, nearly every Amazon we know by name displays exemplary, heroic attributes and achieves honor by dying heroically in battle. In fact, what is truly surprising about Amazon's is the realization that these non Greek women actually surpassed the Greek mythic heroes in the manner of their deaths. Despite their vaunted courage and might not, one Greek hero manages to achieve a glorious death on the battlefield. The Quint, essentially her aerobic credentials of Amazon's, make it difficult to see them as objects of contempt or victims in a tragedy of ancient misogyny. Instead, Amazons of Myth represented worthy human adversaries for Greek heroes