Correct. The Amazons were described in the Iliad as a tribe of female warriors who lived by the river Thermodon. They were thought by many to be the daughters of Ares, the god of war.

After the death of the great Trojan hero, Hector, the Amazons came from some considerable distance to help the Trojans against the Greeks. They fought a big battle outside the city walls, and were eventually defeated by Achilles, who slew the Amazon queen Penthesilea.

The Greeks admired her and her female soldiers greatly, and regretted her death. It was generally agreed that without their warriors Achilles and Ajax on the battlefield the Greeks would have been defeated that day.

Too bad they weren't as far as I'm concerned.

- LH