Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)
Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 232
R. 201 temples, with their crowds of ministering women,gave rise to the Greek legend of the Amazons.* Thefabled empire of these much-famed warrior-women—the head-quarters, so to speak, of the legend—wasplaced on the banks of the TlIERMODON, at no very-great distance from the present ruins of… … lb. GRANARY IN MODERN LYCIA. times stretched farther towards the lilack Sea thanat a later, classical period. The Amazons were saidto have founded cities. Wherever this is the case,we may be sure that ancient llittite sanctuaries ex-isted. Ephesus, Smyrna, Kyme, and several other[ilaces along the…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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