The Amazons, in Greek mythology, were a group of warriors who were all women and girls. There were no men among them.
According to the Greeks, the Amazons lived to the north of Greece, around the Black Sea.
The stories probably come from the fact that among the people who lived north of the Black Sea - the Scythians and other people related to the Scythians like the Huns - women had a lot more power than they did in Greece. In real life, men still had more power than women, even among the Scythians, but Greek travellers like Herodotus thought it was weird for women to be so free, and that was what they remembered about these people.
To find out more about the Amazons, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:
D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, by Edgar and Ingri D'Aulaire.
Pandora's Box: A Three-Dimensional Celebration of the Mythology of Ancient Greece, by Sara Maitland and Christos Kondeatis (1995). Not really about Pandora specifically, but a complex of stories, games, and puzzles about Greek mythology. People love it!
