The Probert Encyclopaedia of Greek & Roman Mythology

AMAZON

in Greek mythology, the Amazons were a group of female warriors living in Africa or near the Black Sea. The tribe contained no men, the men living in an adjoining nation where the boy children were sent to live with their father. The women allegedly had their right breast burned off (hence the name Amazon, meaning 'deprived of a pap') so that they might use the bow more easily - this legend arose from the Greeks supposing the name was from a, not , mazos, breast. It is probably from a, together, and mazos, breast, the name meaning therefore sisters and the idea of removing a breast false. Their queen, Penthesilea, was killed by Achilles at the siege of Troy. The Amazons attacked Theseus and besieged him at Athens, but were defeated, and Theseus took the Amazon Hippolyte captive; she later gave birth to Hippolytus.
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