[893] The queen is called Thalestris by Diodorus and Curtius.
[894] This is a mistake, for Xenophon does mention the Amazons in the Anabasis (iv. 4, 16). For Trapezus and the Phasians see his Anabasis (iv. 8, 22; v. 6, 36.)
[895] See Diodorus, iv. 16. This was one of the twelve labours of Hercules.
[896] See Plutarch (Theseus, 26).
[897] “The Battle of the Amazons” was a celebrated painting in the Stoa Poecile at Athens, executed by Micon, son of Phanichus, a contemporary of Polygnotus about B.C. 460. Cf. Aristophanes (Lysistrata, 678): “Look at the Amazons whom Micon painted on horseback fighting with the men.” See also Pausanias (i. 15; viii. 11).
[898] Cf. Herodotus, iv. 110-117; ix. 27.
[899] See Isocrates (Panegyricus, 19); Lysias (Oratio Funebris, near the beginning).
[900] Strabo (xi. 5) declined to believe in the existence of the Amazons altogether. However, even Julius Cæsar spoke of them as having once ruled over a large part of Asia. See Suetonius (Life of Julius Cæsar, 22). Eustathius, on Dionysius Periegetes, p. 110, derives the name Amazones from ἀ, not, and μᾶζα, barley-bread:—διὸ καὶ Ἀμαζόνες ἐκαλοῦντο οἷα μὴ μάζαις ἀλλὰ κρέασι θηρίων ἐπιστρεφόμεναι. This is not the usual derivation of the word.
[901] Cf. Plutarch (Alex. 72); Diodorus (xvii. 110).
[902] Plutarch makes this statement.