Editing Amazons (section)

===In Scythia===
[[File:Terme_Turkey.jpg|thumb|An amazon fighter statue in [[Terme]], [[Turkey]]]]

The [[Lyric poetry|Poet]] [[Bacchylides]] (6th century BCE) and the historian [[Herodotus]] (5th century BCE) located the Amazon homeland in ''[[Pontus (region)|Pontus]]'' at the southern shores of the Black Sea, and the capital [[Themiscyra (Pontus)|Themiscyra]] at the banks of the [[Thermodon]] (modern [[Terme river]]), by the modern city of [[Terme]]. Herodotus also explains how it came to be that some Amazons would eventually be living in [[Scythia]]. A Greek fleet, sailing home upon defeating the Amazons in battle at the Thermodon river, included three ships crowded with Amazon prisoners. Once out at sea, the Amazon prisoners overwhelmed and killed the small crews of the prisoner ships and, despite not having even basic navigation skills, managed to escape and safely disembark at the Scythian shore. As soon as the Amazons had caught enough horses, they easily asserted themselves in the steppe in between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea and, according to Herodotus, would eventually assimilate with the Scythians, whose descendants were the Sauromatae, the predecessors of the [[Sarmatians]].{{sfn|Herodotus, The Histories|p=4.110.1}}<ref name=admay/>