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Yoana Nikolova

First Class (Hons) BA in Archaeology of Ancient Civilisations | Specialising in Myth, Reception, and Visual Culture in Ancient Greece | MA in Art, Philosophy and Cultural Institutions

University of Liverpool

Published in The Astyanax

• From the archive · Classics · Essay

  Neither Woman Nor Man: The Deliberate Illegibility of the Amazons

  How the Greeks used the Amazons to test the boundaries of gender, from Homer and Herodotus to the scholars who kept insisting they were men.

  23 September 2026