"You would think a band of Amazons was battling." - Statius AD 92




This is what happens when you get cable and/or purchase sets of whole show seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena the Warrior Princess at the same time. You start giving your Latin tutor enormous headaches by insisting on translating all the texts about battles which do not specify the third person singular person's gender as female (Her troops were sent but never arrived. The spears of her men were found in the center of town. She killed the man who slaughtered the inhabitants.) My tutor never fails to assume the male gender of the unspecified third person singular, I never fail to assume the female. Click here for more information on real written and archeological evidence of a legacy of real-live ass-kicking women warriors who fought fierce battles against and alongside men in ancient history.



I really am such a stereotype sometimes. Oh well.