Editing Amazons (section)

===Amazons in the Trojan War===
There are Amazon characters in [[Homer]]'s [[Trojan War]] epic poem, the ''[[Iliad]]'', one of the oldest surviving texts in Europe ([[Archaic Greece|around 8th century BCE]]).
The now lost epic ''[[Aethiopis]]'' (probably by [[Arctinus of Miletus]], 6th century BC), like the ''Iliad'' and several other epics, is one of the works that in combination form the [[Epic Cycle|Trojan War Epic Cycle]]. In one of the few references to the text, an Amazon force under queen [[Penthesilea]], who was of [[Thrace|Thracian]] birth, came to join the ranks of the Trojans after [[Hector]]'s death and initially put the Greeks under serious pressure. Only after the greatest effort and the help of the reinvigorated hero [[Achilles]], the Greeks eventually triumphed. Penthesilea died fighting the mighty Achilles in single combat.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.livius.org/sources/content/epic-cycle/ | title= Epic Cycle | publisher= Livius org| author=  | access-date= January 13, 2021}}</ref> Homer himself deemed the Amazon myths to be common knowledge all over Greece, which suggests that they had already been known for some time before him. He was also convinced that the Amazons lived not at its fringes, but somewhere in or around [[Lycia]] in Asia Minor - a place well within the Greek world.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021|reason=I want to say "dubious" because it's not known for sure that Homer was a specific person. But there's no citation. Please add one or this passage goes away.}}

Troy is mentioned in the ''Iliad'' as the place of [[Myrina (mythology)|Myrine]]'s death.{{sfn|Homer, Iliad|p=2.45–46}}{{sfn|Homer, Iliad|p=3.52–55}} Later identified as an Amazon queen, according to [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]] (1st century BCE), the Amazons under her rule invaded the territories of the [[Atlantis|Atlantians]], defeated the army of the Atlantian city of Cerne, and razed the city to the ground.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7261&context=gradschool_disstheses   |title= The Amazon Myth in Western Literature |date=  | publisher= Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | author=Bruce Robert Magee   | access-date= February 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name="EB1911"/>