"Amazzoni" e donne guerriere tra alterità e desiderio

Amazon woman is a literary topos that has crossed a wide variety of literary and cultural traditions up to our days. In this essay, the author, starting from the classical tradition, analyses the origin of the Amazons theme, by comparing it with the medieval Arabic epic literature, as well as detecting the similarities and differences. In light of this brief analysis, the author does not propose a philological-genealogical reading of the theme, but rather adopts the hermeneutical tools of psychoanalysis to conclude that it is a theme of the universal literature.