{"id":4282,"date":"2015-06-29T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/?post_type=great-lives-lecture&#038;p=4282"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:46:48","slug":"alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander the Great and the Amazons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Alexander the Great and the Amazons<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"6afc876db9210720156cae44352be3ee\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRdfa6960b67a1384ab18347bcd9e07028\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRdfa6960b67a1384ab18347bcd9e07028\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRdfa6960b67a1384ab18347bcd9e07028\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/4282?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRdfa6960b67a1384ab18347bcd9e07028&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/4282?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRdfa6960b67a1384ab18347bcd9e07028\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: March 12, 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122461330\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Alexander &amp; Amazons 3\/12\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><p>Amazons\u2013fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world\u2013were the mythic archenemies of great Greek heroes. Heracules and Achilles battled Amazon queens and the Athenians reveled in their victory over an invading Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia lost his life battling the warrior queen Tomyris. The Roman commander Pompey tangled with warrior women who were the allies of Mithridates of Pontus and his companion Hypsicratea, a real-life Amazon. One of the most enduring and fascinating legends about Alexander the Great is his affair with the Amazon queen Thalestris. Their romance reportedly occurred in about 330 BC in what is now northern Iran, after Alexander\u2019s conquest of Persia and on his way to India. Described\u2013and debated\u2013by historians in antiquity, the story still arouses controversy, even though it appears in a sequence of events whose historical authenticity is generally accepted. Did the young world conqueror really enjoy 13 nights of love with an imperious Amazon queen? Join Adrienne Mayor as she analyzes the evidence for this notorious liaison, drawing on ancient literature, geography, historical accounts, ethnography, and modern archaeology to separate fact from fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Adrienne Major<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Mayor-photo-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Mayor-photo-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Mayor-photo-1-50x50.jpeg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Mayor-photo-1-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Adrienne Mayor is a historian of ancient science and warfare and a classical folklorist who seeks diamonds of truth embedded in classical myths and literature. Her most recent book is The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (2014). Mayor\u2019s biography of Mithridates VI of Pontus, The Poison King (2010) was a National Book Award nonfiction finalist and won the Independent Publishers\u2019 Award for best biography. The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times (2000, 2011) opened a new field in the emerging discipline of Geomythology, and in Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs (2009), Mayor uncovered the ancient roots of biological and chemical warfare. Her research has been featured on NPR and BBC, the History Channel, and other popular media, including New York Times, USA Today, Smithsonian, and National Geographic; her books are translated into ten languages. Mayor is a Research Scholar in the Classics Department and the History Science Program at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[211],"class_list":{"0":"post-4282","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-211","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alexander the Great and the Amazons - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alexander the Great and the Amazons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T19:46:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/alexander-the-great-and-the-amazons\/\",\"name\":\"Alexander the Great and the Amazons - 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