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All domestic and agricultural labour was undertaken by the Spartan slave ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons.

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Musicologist Jason Geary has been named provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Rutgers University's ...

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

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