[Etnography between Herodotus and Hippocrates: the case of warrior women]

According to Herodotus, which tells the myth of their origin, Sauromatides are the daughters of Amazons and of Scitian men; they live as warrior women adapting theirselves on a male model from the childhood until the old age. Hippocrates, corretting the herodotean heritage, says that Sauromatides change their roles with male ones, but only until the age of their marriage. Ephoros says that Sauromatides are a people dominated by women; Plato assignes them a special role in his social roject of Laws.