Relief at Sebasteion: Ancient Aphrodisias School of Sculpture ... Achilles supporting the slumping figure of the Amazon queen Penthesilea whom he has mortally wounded. Her double headed axe slips from her hand. The queen had come to fight in the Trojan War against the invading Greeks. Between her being wounded and dying in his arms, the time presented here, Achilles fell in love with her. - Museum of Aphrodisias. Amazons: Ancient Myth or Reality? The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical antiquity and Greek mythology. Were they just a romantic ancient myth or reality?
Travel notes and photos of archaeological tours in ancient Anatolia, Turkey.