The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Allusions and Cultural References

Literary, Mythological, and Historical References

• The American Civil War (Epigraph to Part 1)
• The Amazons (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Winston Churchill (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Joseph Stalin (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Semiracas (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Nineveh (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Boudicca (Epigraph to Part 1)
• Homer, The Iliad (Epigraph to Part 2)
• Hippocrates (Epigraph to Part 2)
• Galen (Epigraph to Part 2)
• Saddam Hussein (10.25)
• Dioduras (Epigraph to Part 3)
• Queen Myrina (Epigraph to Part 3)
• Bill Clinton (16.166)
• Stanley B. Alpern, Amazons of Black Sparta (Epigraph to Part 4)

Pop Culture References

• CSI (17.253)