In classical legend the Amazons were a tribe of warrior women. Their name is supposedly derived from Greek a-mazos, “without a breast,” because according to the legend they cut off their right breasts so as to be better able to shoot with a bow and arrow. This folk etymology, like most folk etymologies, is incorrect, but the Amazons of legend are not so completely different from the historical Amazons, who were also warriors. The historical Amazons were Scythians, an Iranian people renowned for their cavalry. The first Greeks to come into contact with the Iranians were the Ionians, who lived on the coast of Asia Minor and were constantly threatened by the Persians, the most important of the Iranian peoples. Amazon is the Ionian Greek form of the Iranian word ha-mazan, “fighting together.” The regular Greek form would be hamazon, but because the Ionians dropped their aitches like Cockneys, hamazon became amazon, the form taken into the other Greek dialects.
Seems to me, last I checked in on it, Amazons were neither Black nor White (heck, they were not even GREEK as someone on here claimed). As a matter course, Amazon people (you know, who live in the AMAZON) are for sure not white.
I don't much really care about the ethnicity of the actress who gets this role, but I would not want Beyonce to do this role: 1) she can't act (for Dream Girls she just had to sing!) and 2) she isn't tall enough and 3) She can't act (hello, Austin Powers and the Pink Panther???). Oh and 4)She just wants to be Diana Ross.
