[Split] Troy

[Callybear 0]

Dumbldore. Gay! Interesting. Have you read the harry potter mad edition. That's funny. Oh yeah...

Firstly: Does anyone here know anything about troy? I need some gore for one of my pieces. Or just any good love stories. Not soppy! Just interesting...

[Cerendrallion 32]

Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships.

 

There was a film released recently about a great romance, Tristam and Isolede or something. It was set in Ireland and the girl put on an appalling Irish accent, which is why I recall it so well...

[Callybear 0]

I wince for you. I know about helen and stuff. I mena more about the amazons. you know anyhting about them?

[Olivia 26]

You should read Marian Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand It's about the Trojan war, from the point of view of Kassandra. Great book, and not too long if you want to read it, Callybear. Lots of good fighting and romance and ancient culture.

 

I mena more about the amazons. you know anyhting about them?

 

Well, most of what people know is just myth, and ancient Greek male fantasies of warrior women. But we do know is that there were groups of nomadic women that engaged in battle in that era.

 

Myths say that they lived in bands entirely without men, and slept with men in towns they passed to make children (and killed any boy babies they had).

 

Another popular myth is that they cut off one of their breasts so that they could fire a bow more easily (this might sound strange but I personally am an archer and I have to wear a mesh band across my chest to protect it from the bowstring slicing across my chest when I fire. Very painful >.<) Personally I think this is just male arrogance, thinking that women had to make themselves less of women to be as good at fighting as men were.