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"Bloody, brutal, and thoroughly gripping. Last of the Amazons shows an amazing grasp of the savage mind, and the precarious nature of civilization, "praises Diana Gabaldon. From the New York Times bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes a stunning epic of love and war that breathes authentic life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, set sail on a journey to the land of the tal Kyrte, the"free people"--a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called Amazons. The Amazons, bound to one another as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of"civilization."So when the great warrior queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with him, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. An epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman, Last of the Amazons is historical fiction at its finest.