Padre Lamberti e le Amazzoni

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.contributor.author	Ognibene Paolo
dc.title	Padre Lamberti e le Amazzoni
dc.type	Book Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Arcangelo Lamberti, a missionary of the Theatines’ order, spent nearly two decades in Mingrelia, from 1635 to 1653. In 1654 his Report on the Colchis, Nowadays Called Mingrelia was printed in Naples. In the 28th chapter of his work, Lamberti reports about a battle in the Caucasus: many of the killed warriors were women. Is there any relationship between these fighting women and the Amazons mentioned in the Ancient Greek sources? This article reconstructs the story of the myth of the Amazons from Ancient Greece onwards.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasiatica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.date.issued	2018-11-15
dc.dateAccepted	2018-05-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-06-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-279-6/004
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-280-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-279-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.subject	Lamberti
dc.subject	Amazons
dc.subject	Caucasus
dc.subject	Scythians
dc.subject	Massagetians

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Padre Lamberti e le Amazzoni

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Paolo Ognibene Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italia

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Arcangelo Lamberti, a missionary of the Theatines’ order, spent nearly two decades in Mingrelia, from 1635 to 1653. In 1654 his Report on the Colchis, Nowadays Called Mingrelia was printed in Naples. In the 28th chapter of his work, Lamberti reports about a battle in the Caucasus: many of the killed warriors were women. Is there any relationship between these fighting women and the Amazons mentioned in the Ancient Greek sources? This article reconstructs the story of the myth of the Amazons from Ancient Greece onwards.

keywords: Lamberti. Amazons. Caucasus. Scythians. Massagetians.

Language: it

Submitted: May 21, 2018
Accepted: June 20, 2018
Published: Nov. 15, 2018
permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-279-6/004

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