Strabo, Geography

But the fact that the fertility of the country of which I am speaking¹ was set before the powerful as a common prize of war is confirmed by many things which have taken place even subsequent to the Trojan War,² since even the Amazons took courage to attack it, against whom not only Priam, but also Bellerophontes, are said to have made expeditions; and the naming of ancient cities after the Amazons attests this fact. And in the Trojan Plain there is a hill“which by men is called 'Batieia,' but by the immortals 'the tomb of the much-bounding Myrina,'
”³who, historians say, was one of the Amazons, inferring this from the epithet "much-bounding"; for they say that horses are called "well-bounding" because of their speed, and that Myrina, therefore, was called "much-bounding" because of the speed with which she drove her chariot. Myrina, therefore, is named after this Amazon. And the neighboring islands had the same experience because of their fertility; and Homer clearly testifies that, among these, Rhodes and Cos were already inhabited by Greeks before the Trojan War.⁴