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Pelike Vase (6th to 4th century BCE) depicting either Gigantomachy (gods against giants) or Amazonomachy (gods against amazons), Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete, Greece

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November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Amazonomachy

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#fantasyart #illustration #amazonomachy #amazonwarrior #greekmythologyart #darkart #digitalpainting
June 21, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Ancient Thracian Silver Phiale depicting the Amazonomachy (430-420 BC) - Bulgaria

Vassil Bojkov collection, Sofia, Bulgaria

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November 30, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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What these friezes from the temple of Apollo at Bassae may lack in elegance & sophistication, they make up for in drama & dynamism. The full friezes depict an Amazonomachy & a Centaurs & Lapiths battle. They vividly show the brutality & confusion of war

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January 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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What these friezes from the temple of Apollo at Bassae may lack in elegance & sophistication, they make up for in drama & dynamism. The full friezes depict an Amazonomachy & a Centaurs & Lapiths battle. They vividly show the brutality & confusion of war

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May 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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This closeup of an *enormous* Apulian volute krater depicts the Amazonomachy - the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons. Incredible representations of warriors, gods, chariots, and horses. Everything seems in motion. Nike on the left carries a silver caduceus. 🏺

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This incredibly large red-figure volute krater (vessel for mixing water and wine) comes from a tomb in Ruvo, ancient Apulia. It features an Amazonomachy, the battle of the Greeks against the Amazons. In this closeup, we see two Amazons looking not much different from the Greeks themselves, wearing plumed golden helmets and rounded shields; the Amazon on the left, her cape swirling as if in motion, wears silver greaves on her shins. Winged Nike floats behind them, holding a silver caduceus. Lots of horseback warriors and chariots surround them, along with patterns of large palmettes. Apulian, ca. 340-320 BCE. From the Tomba del Vaso dell'Amazzonomachia (Tomb of the Vase of the Amazonomachy), Ruvo. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN inv. 81667)
February 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The "Amazon Sarcophagus", a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)
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The "Amazon Sarcophagus", a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)
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January 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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That was the day the ancient songs of blood and war spilled from a hole in the sky
And there was a long moment as we listened and fell silent in our grief…

~ Brian Andreas (b. 1956)

#Sculpture, ‘Amazonomachy Halicarnassus,’ c. 350 B.C.
January 18, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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#ReliefWednesday

The art of the sarcophagus in ancient Rome can really blow your socks off. Take this exquisite example which depicts an Amazonomachy (war against the Amazons). Horses and warriors every which way and a gorgon shield as well!

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Marble sarcophagus with a relief of an Amazonomachy. There are warriors fighting and victims of the battle litter the lower part of the relief. Now displayed in the Museo Pio-Clementino (Vatican Museums). Photograph by Giovanni Dall'Orto.
September 4, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Amazonomachy

This artist absolutely knows how to draw a horse from the front
Mounted Amazon, not really getting emotional about the war around her
August 27, 2023 at 8:12 PM
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One can easily miss such gracious details in Musei Vaticani 🏺
Two bronze geese (or swans?) fused from tails looking at oppsite directions. Each has a rider on it. This thing seems like a lid to the cylindrical "cyst" under it. Same as the 1st photo, more detailed Label Large oval cist with amazonomachy (battle of the Greeks against the Amazons) From Vulci. V. Campanari excavations, 1833 Late 4th cent. B.C. Side of the cyst with battle reliefs
July 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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What these friezes from the temple of Apollo at Bassae may lack in elegance & sophistication, they make up for in drama & dynamism. The full friezes depict an Amazonomachy & a Centaurs & Lapiths battle. They vividly show the brutality & confusion of war with no clear winner

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October 18, 2023 at 6:06 AM
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Painter of the Woolly Satyrs, Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)(Attica 450 BCE)
On the neck, obverse, battle of centaurs and Lapiths; reverse, youths and women. Around the body, Amazonomachy (battle between Greeks and Amazons)
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Aëlla (Storm Wind) was a companion of Hippolyta and was killed by Heracles.

The labrys (double-headed axe or Amazon axe) refers to an axe with two opposing, curved blades.

The labrys is featured on the Labrys Lesbian Flag. The flag was designed by Sean Campbell in 1999 and published in 2000.
​The image shows a Roman mosaic depicting a battle between a Greek or Roman warrior and an Amazon (Amazonomachy). ​The Warrior (right): Wears ornate golden/yellowish armor, a crested helmet, and a light cape billowing behind him. In his right hand, he holds a double-headed axe (labrys) raised to strike, while grabbing the Amazon by her hair with his left hand. He carries an oval shield with a golden boss on his left arm. ​The Amazon (center): Is seated on a horse, leaning slightly backward. She wears a short tunic that exposes one shoulder, along with sandals. She reaches up with one hand toward her attacker's arm. ​The Horse (left): A brown horse shown in profile with a bridle and a chest strap decorated with a round medallion. A leafless tree is faintly visible in the background on the left. ​The mosaic is composed of fine, colored stone tiles (tesserae) in earth tones, white, brown, yellow, and green. Large sections along the lower and right edges are missing, revealing the plain backing material.
September 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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For #SarcophagusSaturday we have this monumental box in the #VaticanMuseums, with an unrelated lid, which shows the battle of the #Greeks against the #Amazons at #Troy, with the deceased couple standing in for #Achilles and #Penthesilea, the #Amazon queen, from 230-250 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺
SARCOPHAGUS WITH AMAZONOMACHY, 230-250 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This is one of the oldest sarcophagi in Rome to be valued for its beauty and protected from reuse. It was first noted around 1420, and in 1550 entered Julius III's collection at the Villa Giulia, from which it was removed in 1776 to the Belvedere Courtyard where it remains. It shows one of the late scenes of the Iliad, in which the Amazons, Trojan allies, battle the Achaians. Achilles defeats their queen, Penthesilea, and in the moment before her death, according to some accounts, they fall in love, because women fall in love with their killers, don't they? That is a completely normal thing and not at all a weird male fantasy. The central couple have the features of the deceased, inserting themselves into a mythological love story. The sarcophagus was very influential on art from the C15 onward.
April 25, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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For ReliefWednesday, a fragment of an early 2nd century CE marble copy of the shield of Athena Parthenos depicting an Amazonomachy, with Perikles and the sculptor Pheidias depicted among the combatants. From Athens. Now in the British Museum.

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Fragment of a marble shield depicting a battle between the Greeks and Amazons with a Gorgon at center.
September 27, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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‪THE PORTRAIT ofan AMAZON 2
#BassaeFrieze w/ #Amazonomachy
#Apollo #Temple #Bassae #Greece
5BC
#BritishMuseum #London
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Pt ofthe "Reliefs-Friezes-Sculpt."Gall
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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THE PORTRAIT OF AN AMAZON
#BassaeFrieze w/ #Amazonomachy
#Apollo #Temple #Bassae #Greece
5BC
#BritishMuseum #London
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Pt ofthe "Reliefs-Friezes-Sculpt."Gall
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October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Great exhibition in the Capitoline museum on Phidias the Athenian sculptor who designed the Parthenon and the statue of Olympian Zeus.
The front of a statue of Apollo by Phidias, a naked slim youth with longish curls of hair. The back and butt of a statue of Apollo by Phidias A bronze reproduction of the statue of Athena Lemnea. Shattered stone reproduction of the shield of Athena Parthenos showing scenes from the Amazonomachy.
March 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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This synthesis explores the deep connections between ancient mythologies (Amazonomachy, Titanomachy), the historical Hittites, & a spectrum of spiritual traditions (Biblical, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist, African, and Indigenous American).
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October 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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📜Interweaving Amazonomachy, the Hittites, Titanomachy, & Global Spiritual Tradition
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October 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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#Wiktionary #WOTD for 27 August 2025: “Amazonomachy”—“(Ancient Greece, mythology) synonym of ‘Amazonomachia’ (‘a battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene’)” en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktion...
A detail from a frieze from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (present-day Bodrum, Turkey) showing an Amazonomachy. By Marie-Lan Nguyen, from the collection of the British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (CC-BY 2.5 Generic; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Amazon_Frieze_BM_GR1857.12-20.269-270.jpg).
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Classical Equid #5. Possibly an Amazonomachy scene. 4th-3rd C BC.

Heraklion Archaelogical Museum.
April 16, 2026 at 11:41 AM