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Gargareans
Sign in to savethumb|350px|Gargareans (Gargari) in the North Caucasus on a fragment of [[Henry Teesdale's map of the Ancient Roman Empire.]] In Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, ( Gargareis) were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. The Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and gave the males to the Gargareans. According to K. V. Trever, it is possible that the "Amazons" mentioned by ancient authors are a distorted ethnic term, "Alazons," meaning the inhabitants of the area along the Alazani River, among wh
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thumb|350px|Gargareans (Gargari) in the North Caucasus on a fragment of [[Henry Teesdale's map of the Ancient Roman Empire.]] In Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, ( Gargareis) were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. The Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and gave the males to the Gargareans. According to K. V. Trever, it is possible that the "Amazons" mentioned by ancient authors are a distorted ethnic term, "Alazons," meaning the inhabitants of the area along the Alazani River, among whom vestiges of matriarchy may have persisted somewhat longer than among other Caucasian peoples.
According to the ancient Greek geographer Strabo, the Gargareans, who originally inhabited Themiscyra along with the Amazons before they split, with the help of the Thracians and Euboeans declared war on the Amazons; the conflict ended in a pact between the two peoples, namely, that there should be a companionship only with respect to offspring, and that they should live each independent of the other.