Product Summary
| Last of the Amazons |
| Pros |
• pro #1 Presents a plausible Amazon community, its rituals and social structure. • pro #2 Makes a case for the inferiority of civilization. • pro #3 Potentially interesting story used as frame. |
| Cons |
• con #1 Frame story under-developed. • con #2 Too much blood and gore. • con #3 Stylistically deliberate lack of focus leads to confusion as to who is the central character. |
The Bottom Line -
Steven Pressfield ruined a perfectly lovely story about growing up under Amazon tutelage by obsessing about violence, blood, and gore. |
| Product Description | |
| • | Last of the Amazons tells the story of the legendary love affair between Theseus and the Amazon queen Antiope. |
| • | Pressfield elaborates the temporary alliances forged by the Amazons to fight first the neighboring tribes and then the Athenians. |
| • | Shows how different and yet similar can be the standards of honor, valor, and the meaning of life. |
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Last of the Amazons, by Steven Pressfield Titanic director James Cameron optioned Steven Pressfield's Last of the Amazons when it was still in galleys. At a movie, the squeamish viewer can close his eyes and wait for the music to give the all clear; not so the reader of Pressfield's latest epic. Grueling battles mean grueling reading -- without reprieve. Last of the Amazons disappointed me, but not so badly as it might have had I held preconceived notions about its screenwriter author. I knew only that he wrote historical battle fiction. It was disappointing, however, to see traces of a good story and intriguing social structures relegated to third place behind battles, blood, and style. My recommendation: Wait to see the movie. It will be action-packed. |
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| • Warrior Women |
• Amazons • Amazons: Did They Exist? • Theseus • Theseus Resources |
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