Meaning of Amazonomachia | Babel Free

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A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene.

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“In style these vases have the general Apulian type, and their art is of the same late period. […] Among the subjects are the usual Eros and Aphrodite of this style, Phrixos crossing the Hellespont on the ram, Orestes at Delphi, the sacrifice of the ram of Tantalos, Aktaion seized by his dogs, the burial of Chrysippos, Bellerophon, Meleager and the Kalydonian bear, Herakles and Geryon, the judgment of Paris, the arming of Penthesilea, Europa, the Kentaurs and Amazonomachiai, Omphale, and others of a similar kind.”

“The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.”

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