Comments by "chaosXpert" (@chaosXP3RT) on "Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor" video.

  1. Or end lives
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  2.  @cambamslam3510  They were hermaphrodites. They had both sets of genitalia
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  3.  @cambamslam3510  I wouldn't say a whole clan. They were a class of citizens. There probably weren't a lot, because biological hermaphrodites are a rarity. One Greek historian said that their frequent riding of horses made them "infertile" so they embraced their femininity, but I doubt riding a horse did that. No matter why or how they became to be identified as hermaphrodites, they were probably often with diplomats, giving Greek diplomats, historians and authority figures an exaggerated feeling of their number. Ancient historians often exaggerated a lot; willingly or ignorantly. For example an "army of 100,000" was probably not so big, but because they had no way of counting all the soldiers, they only needed to give the impression that it was a large, foreboding army. So it more so felt like an army of 100,000
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