Olga Togoeva

A New Reading of an Old Myth: the Amazons of Joseph Hall and Richard Brom

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Amazons myth, proposed in the satirical writings of two English authors of the first half of the 17th century. The author of the article notes that both Joseph Hall’s “Mundus alter et idem” and Richard Brom’s “Antipodes” lacked almost all the components of this myth known t...