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"This does not mean that [Amazons] were virgins in the technical sense of virgo intacta. For since the Greeks denied the existence of the hymen (Sissa 1990), they had no means of telling whether a girl was virgin in our sense or not. And in traditional Mediterranean society, then as now, this meant a lot of lost sleep for her parents." ~ Andrew Stewart, "Imag(in)ing the Other: Amazons and Ethnicity in Fifth-Century Athens," Poetics Today

Quite the random comment to run across in a 25 page article, isn't it? >:-]