Editing Amazons (section)

===Amazon homeland===
[[Strabo]] (1st century BCE) visits and confirms the original homeland of the Amazons on the plains by the [[Terme River|Thermodon]] river. However, long gone and not seen again during his lifetime, the Amazons had allegedly retreated into the mountains. Strabo, however, added that other authors, among them [[Metrodorus of Scepsis]] and [[Hypsicrates]] claim that after abandoning Themiscyra, the Amazons had chosen to resettle beyond the borders of the [[Gargareans]], an all-male tribe native to the northern foothills of the [[Caucasus Mountains|Caucasian Mountains]]. The Amazons and [[Gargareans]] had for many generations met in secrecy once a year during two months in spring, in order to produce children. These encounters would take place in accordance with ancient tribal customs and collective offers of sacrifices. All females were retained by the Amazons themselves, and males were returned to the Gargareans.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://faculty.washington.edu/scstroup/Amazonevidence.html| title= Reading on Amazons | publisher= University of Washington| author=  | access-date= January 13, 2021}}</ref> 5th century BCE poet [[Magnes (comic poet)|Magnes]] sings of the bravery of the [[Lydians]] in a cavalry-battle against the Amazons.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://topostext.org/work/240#mu.21   |title= Suda Encyclopedia |date=  | publisher= Topostext | author=   | access-date= February 1, 2021}}</ref><ref name="BlundellBlundell1995">{{cite book|author1=Sue Blundell|author2=Susan Blundell|title=Women in Ancient Greece p. 60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xfx1VaSIOgQC|year=1995|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-95473-1}}</ref><ref name=vul/>