History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ... 1
History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ... 1
George Grote
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Some of the most venerated religious legends at Sinopd were attached to the expedition of H^raklds against the Amazons : Autolykus, the oracle-giving hero, worshiped with great solemnity even at the time when the town was besieged by LucuUus, was the companion of ILhti- kids (Appian, ib. c. 83). Even a small mountain village in the territory of Ephesus, called Latoreia, derived its name from one of the Amazons (Athenee. i. p. 31). .u2 299 HISTORY OF GREECE. [Part I. daring character of the Sarm...atian maidens, — who were obliged to have slain each an enemy in battle as the condition of obtaining a husband, and who artificially prevented the growth of the right breast during childhood, — ^they could imagine no more satisfactory mode of accounting for such attributes than by deducing the Sarmatians from a colony of vagrant Amazons, expelled by the Grecian heroes from their territory on the Therm6d6n*. Pindar ascribed the first establishment of the memorable temple of Artemis at Ephesus to the Amazons.
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