When Alexander met Thalestris

The romantic liaison between the great Amazon warrior queen and the conqueror of the known world has been much mythologised. But did such a pairing really happen?

'The Amazon Queen, Thalestris, in the Camp of Alexander the Great', by Johann Georg Platzer, c.1750.

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