Chapter I: The Amazons

The hardinesse and conquests of diuers stout, and aduenturous women, called Amazones, the beginninge, and continuance of their Reigne, and of the great iourney of one of their Queenes called Thalestris to visit Alexander the great: with the cause of her trauaile.

[_Source and Origin._--Herod, iv. 110.

_Parallels._--Acerra, ii. 58; Albertinus, 55; Kirchhof, _Wendenmuth_,
iv. 182.

_Painter._--I. ii. 1; II. ii. 1; III. ii. 1; IV. ii. 159.]

_Derivates._--A Masque of the Amazons was played March 3, 1592
(Henslowe).]