Later on in history many of the greeks began to treat the amazon legend as a myth, and regarded it to have the same amount of factual information as the centaurs and the Gorgans. Subsequently many of the writers wre critised (strabo, Herodotus and pliny) for acrediting the amazon myths.
Though, as detailed about the amazons as Strabo is he does make a statement about his personal view on the hole myth:
"There is a peculiarity in the history of the Amazons. In other histories the fabulous and the historical parts are kept distinct. For what is ancient, false, and marvellous is called fable. But history has truth for its object, whether it be old or new, and it either rejects or rarely admits the marvellous. But with regard to the Amazons, the same facts are related both by modern and ancient writers; they are marvellous, and exceed belief. For who can believe that an army of women, or a city, or a nation, could ever subsist without men? and not only subsist, but make inroads upon the territories of other people, and obtain possession not only of the places near them, and advance as far as the present Ionia, but even dispatch an expedition across the sea to Attica?"
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