The word 'Antianeirai' comes from the Iliad, where it was used to refer to the Amazons. It translates as "those who fight like men".
When Sydney leaves the Trinity College's offices in a hurry, she starts dictating orders to Karen and Nigel. Nigel replies to her, "Yes, sir!" This evokes the ages' old genre conflict that had been evoked by the flashback to 1200 B.C.'s duel of Hippolyte and Hercules.