Amazonomachy

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Amazons were warrior women of Greek legend believed to have lived on the northern fringes of Greece, modern Thrace and toward the Black Sea. Machos is the Greek word for battle. Amazonomachies were legendary battles between Greeks and Amazons. These foreign creatures succomed in myth to the likes of Herakles and Theseus, but they were objects of sympathy and fascination. For discussion of the major battles of Greek legend see Amazons in Greek Mythology. For representation of Amazonomachies in ancient art see Amazons in Greek & Roman Art. Pheidias represented an Amazonomachy on the shield of the Athena Parthenos, the monumental cult statue of the Parthenon. Another representation was painted by Micon, on the Stoa Poikile at the Ancient Agora of Athens.

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