The wonderful adventure novel "The Amazons" by the well-known writer Arkady Krupnyakov is the first part of a trilogy of the same name about the semi-legendary realm of warrior women in the Northern Black Sea region. On the banks of the broad-flowing Thermoskiros (Fermoskiros)—the main city of fierce and merciless Amazons—everything is spread out freely. Their swift and cruel raids terrify the peaceful population: shepherds, fishermen, and craftsmen. Fermoskiros grows richer, its territories expand. But nothing in this world lasts forever. In the midst of a civil war between the Amazon queen and the chief priestess of the temple of Hippolyta, a Greek army invades the country under the command of the experienced Diomedes...