Yes, something like that. Obviously there was a historical basis in societies that neighbor Greece where women were not so suppressed. The word amazon is the Ionian Greek form of the Iranian word ha-mazan, meaning "fighting together." The regular Greek form would be hamazon, but over time it simply became amazon. This implies not an exclusively female society like we see in the myths, but one where women had a relatively equal status to men, fighting alongside them as members of the warriour aristocracy.
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