- Lady Reason tells Christine about the Amazons, a war-like civilization made up entirely of women. For many years (even centuries), this culture defended its lands and defeated other male-centered countries in war.
- As we've heard, the Amazon kingdom of women ruled itself and conquered other lands for a long time. One of their bravest queens was Thamiris, who tricked a Persian king named Cyrus into attacking them and then wiped out his forces with an ambush. Then she cut off Cyrus' head and threw it in a bucket of blood. Yeesh.
- Eventually, the strong hero named Hercules got his buddy Theseus and decided to try his hand at conquering the Amazons. When they came up against the Amazons, two women warriors in particular—Menalippe and Hippolyta—charged them and knocked them off their horses. It was only after a long a harsh battle that Hercules and Theseus were able to take the women prisoner. After all, this is Hercules we're talking about.
- Eventually, the queen of the Amazonians got her soldiers back by promising never to try and conquer Greece. The guy named Theseus ended up marrying Hippolyta because he'd fallen in love with her.
- After the Amazonian Queen Orithyia died, the women crowned her daughter Penthesilea as their new ruler. It was through this woman's military might that the kingdom of Amazonia grew larger than ever before.
- Penthesilea stayed a virgin her whole life, but she was in love with the Trojan soldier Hector, who was killed in a fight. After finding him dead, she promised to avenge him by killing his murderer. She eventually found the son of Hector's murderer and badly wounded him, but the guy unfortunately survived and later came back to kill her.
- It was because of women like Penthesilea that the Kingdom of Amazonia lasted for more than 800 years.
- Lady Reason offers Christine another story, this one about Zenobia, Queen of the Palmyrenes. The story reinforces the idea that women in positions of power are more than capable of showing great courage in difficult times.
- Of all Zenobia's great qualities—which include chastity and courage—her greatest was her high level of education. Remember this, because there is nothing Christine de Pizan wants more than for women in her society to receive good educations.