Amazonomachy
English
Alternative forms
- Amazonomachia
Etymology
Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομαχία (Amazonomakhía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌæməzəˈnɒməki/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
Amazonomachy (plural Amazonomachies)
- A battle with Amazons, especially their defeat by men; an artistic representation of such a scene.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.
- 1998, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford 2004, p. 31:
- Heracles' ninth labour was to fetch the girdle of the Amazon queen, Hippolyte, resulting in another Amazonomachy (Apollod. 4. 16).
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Translations
artistic representation of a battle with Amazons
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