Amazon - Zurich, Switzerland
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N 47° 22.327 E 008° 32.427
32T E 465305 N 5246619
A fountain with a sculpture of an Amazon warrior.
Waymark Code: WMQA1V
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Date Posted: 01/19/2016
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This fountain has water spilling out of spouts that are attached to an adjacent column. The column has a sculpture of an Amazon...a woman warrior with her quiver of arrows.
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Wikipedia (
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"In Greek mythology, the Amazons ...were a race of woman warriors. Herodotus reported that they were related to the Scythians (an Iranian people) and placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia (modern territory of Ukraine). Other historiographers place them in Anatolia, or sometimes Libya.
Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, whose magical girdle, given to her by her father Ares, was the object of one of the labours of Hercules. Amazon warriors were often depicted in battle with Greek warriors in amazonomachies in classical art.
The Amazons have become associated with many historical people throughout the Roman Empire period and Late Antiquity. In Roman historiography, there are various accounts of Amazon raids in Anatolia.[citation needed] From the early modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general. Amazons were said to have founded the cities and temples of Smyrna, Sinope, Cyme, Gryne, Ephesus, Pitania, Magnesia, Clete, Pygela, Latoreria and Amastris; according to legend, the Amazons also invented the cavalry."