The Amazon Women:
Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth?
(Title of article image is linked to)
The 2014 article by Amanda Foreman
released in the Smithsonian Magazine states "The origins of the debate can be traced back to a Swiss law professor and classical scholar named Johann Jakob Bachofen. In 1861."
Below I've sampled pages of a book published in 1752 which describes the complexities of a historic period in which the Amazons are depicted in a matter of fact way as having been a people that did exist.