Another great book by Steven Pressfield. My one complaint was that at times it was a little confusing because of the multiple POV's. This was easily overshadowed by the brilliant, visceral battle sequences with a nice surprise at the end.

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The 4 stars are in ascending order whilst reading"Amazon"! I came so close to abandoning the story several times as I was getting confused with places, names, weapons etc. It was all Greek to me! But perseverance paid off as the last third was fantastic. An underlying reason for finishing was mere respect for Mr. Pressman's efforts of creating an entire culture by amassing a complete tome of information from available resources and the result is this vivid tale.

Read this book in 2011, and its a wonderful standalone book about the warrior women called "Amazons".

This tale is set around the year 1250 BC, and it tells us the story of the legendary warrior women called the Amazons, and their achievements as ferocious fighters.

Is starts when King Theseus of Athens sets sail on a journey and will end up in the land of the "tal Kyrte", the Free People, whom the Greeks will call the Amazons.

There in the land of the "tal Kyrte" the Warrior Queen Antiope falls in love with King Theseus, and they will flee to the land of the Greeks.

What will happen is a Amazon nation in rage and that will unite to get their Queen Antiope back from the distrustful Greeks, and that will happen with warfare of a very high calibre.

All this is told in a very astounding fashion by the author, in which he has brought the Greek and Amazon world alive with lifelike and humanlike actions compared to that time of history, and where attention to military detail is second to none.

Very much recommended, for this is a thrilling legendary Amazon retelling, and that's why I like to call this book of heroic women: "Astounding Warrior Women"!

It has a lot of research,ok,it is interesting but I found it a little boring. Maybe cause I've read a lot of this kind. But is worth it

Steven Pressfield is consistently writes interesting stories, generally told from a unique point of view. Last of the Amazons is no different, you learn the story of the war between the ancient Amazons, a race of female horse archer warriors and Athens far before it was a world power. The story is told for the perspectives of a young Greek girl raised by an Amazon governess, the governess and the girl’s uncle. The parallel stories of the war and the current search for the runaway governess make for interesting reading and it is a fun read.

Dumb book

Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield's retelling of the Spartan resistance to the 480 B.C. Persian invasion of Greece, was an ecstatic reading experience. I didn't think it could be topped. Then I got ahold of Tides of War, a novelization of the life of the great philosopher/warrior of Periclean Athens, Alcibiades. It was even better; quite simply one of the best historical novels I'll ever read. However, to my surprise and disappointment, I found Pressfield's next two novels set in ancient Greece--Last of the Amazons, a reinterpretation of the myth of Theseus and Antiope, and The Virtues of War, about Alexander the Great--to be rather subpar. It felt like maybe he'd exhausted his inspiration with the first two and wrote the others out of inertia or habit. I haven't picked up any of his fiction since.

Felt like the first 80 pages constantly jumped around making it hard to track. After that It became an awesome story and I didn’t want to put it down.

Presfild ostaje dosledan sebi u spajanju mitologije i istorije.
Bitke su toliko dobro i detaljno opisane, da sam imala utisak da stojim na nekom Atinskom brdascetu i celu tu strku posmatram uzivo.

With the main narrative of Bones chasing her sister and Selena, the posse stops for a chat, the main storyteller asked Damon to continue, partway through we switc to "selene's testimony" of unknown providence who starts jumping sround in time and says "but we are getting ahead of our tale".

The contrast of Hunter Gathers bs farming way of life has been contrasted better elsewhere and there doesnt seem to be as much of the pressfield summary of Greek philosophy throughout as with some of his more popular works.

Choice Notes
"Our Athenian guest," the champion resumed when the tumult had subsided, "claims that cities produce leisure. What rubbish! Who has more free time than the hunter and warrior, whose very work is sport? We of the steppe do not know the word labor, for all we do is engaged in with joy reverencing the ordinance of our Maker. Our days are passed in God's play; at night we lie down with the healthy fatigue of activities well shaping to body and soul

Because "they fear Theseus more than they fear us." At once I knew she was right. These rude princes understood in their guts that tomorrow lay not with them and the free life of the plains, but with the city and its walls and ships and, before all, the engine of its ascendancy, the masses of its commons. "The army of Amazonia passes over these princes'` lands and moves on. Theseus' army, the army of the city, comes and stays. It will efface these clansmen and their way of life as surely as it will us and ours. And nothing we can do will stop it."

"Men in fear crave order. Give it to them. Tell them where to sleep and where to shit. Make no appeal to lofty ideals of patriotism or self-sacri- fice. They are too dread-stricken to hear. Just tell them what to do. Keep it simple. Stand there. Hold this. Do that.' "Your job now is to quell your men's terror. Get proper food into their bellies and proper arms into their fists. Bind your fellows with sweat, for who builds a wall builds valor, and who whets his bronze whets his courage. Let your men grumble; it makes them feel like soldiers. Let them joke, for hone can fear and laugh at the same time. Re- member that each man's concern is for his own amily now. This is natural; do not seek to quell it. Jnity will come. The foe will force it upon us.

Exciting read and lots of action. The characters were believable as was their dialogue.

Δεν είχα ξαναδιαβάσει Πρέσφιλντ. Λυπάμαι πολύ γι' αυτό... ο τύπος είναι καταπληκτικός.
Οι τελευταίες αμαζόνες είναι ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα με όλη της σημασία της λέξης "ιστορικό". Ολες του οι περιγραφές είναι γεμάτες πλήρεις αναφορές, δοσμένες με τρόπο τέτοιο που δεν σου επιτρέπουν να έχεις ουδεμία αμφιβολία για τα όσα διαβάζεις.
Οι σχεδόν 500 σελίδες κύλησαν νερό, χωρίς να κουράζει, χωρίς επαναλήψεις, με όλες τις συναισθηματικές αλλαγές ενός μεγάλου έργου.
Τα 5 αστέρια της αξιολόγησης τα κέρδισε επάξια !!