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My Writings
Selections from my Work
Amazonia
Queens of the Amazons ..
Arta's Story
The World of Arta
1130-1180 BCE
The period that is the setting for this story is one of the crossroads of history. It was a time when the
old order gave way to a new. The disintegration of the Hittite Empire has left the Hurrians as the strongest of
their successor states. The Assyrians have been steadily asserting their power, displacing and incorporating
the Babylonians and threatening the Hurrians. The Phrygians have seized territory in Anatolia, moving into
the vacuum left by the collapse of the Hittite Empire The Greek expansion, given renewed impetus by their
defeat of Troy, has seen settlements and colonies spread from the lands surrounding the Aegian into the
Euxine Sea.
Following their ally Troy’s destruction, the Amazon nation faced threats from a multitude of
enemies. Their Queens, determined to seek a new land where their safety could be better assured, sent most
of their nation under their daughter Orthia and her consort Melusa to seek their new home. Meanwhile they
took those unable or unwilling to undertake such a journey to a place to begin a new life, hidden from the
eyes of men.
The epic story of the Amazon trek, the subsequent birth of the Amazonian nation from their
amalgamation with the Alban Kelts and their triumph over the numerous enemies that threatened is told in
“Queens of the Amazons – Orthia’s story.”
With the future more secure, the new nation settled down to build a new society, one that differed
from those elsewhere. Built on freedom and opportunity for all, it yet required from all its citizens a
commitment of support to preserve what they had created.
Elsewhere, the stability of other civilizations was threatened by mass movements of peoples and wars for
dominance.
Meanwhile, the remnants of the Amazons who had remained in Asia Minor had, as planned, hidden
themselves in the mountains of Anatolia. Here, safe within a hidden city, they carved out a niche for
themselves. Always, however, surrounded by those who could not understand or feared their values and
beliefs, they could never know true peace of mind.
This was the world of Arta, prince of the Amazonians and of those he came to love.