Did I say they were fighting with Hoplite equipment?
Hoplites were heavy infantry found in Greece. That it was said of the Amazons that they took certain measures (cutting off a breast IIRC) to permit them to be better archers would indicate that they weren’t fighting as heavy infantry but as light.
Light troops can still do lots of damage and in particular they can be good at exactly what the Amazons were attributed with, raiding, because of their greater speed.
“Light troops can still do lots of damage and in particular they can be good at exactly what the Amazons were attributed with, raiding, because of their greater speed.”
While women would seemingly capable of firing arrows from horseback, women warriors as a concept remains contrary to human nature.
People point to the Israelis, but they don’t put women into front-line combat any more. They discovered that it is a bad idea.
There may have been aberrations in the past, as there are today, but I do not believe that any culture was happy enough with young girls dying in battle that they continued it for any protracted period.