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In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a race of warlike women noted for their riding skills, courage, and pride, who lived at the outer limits of the known world, sometimes specifically mentioned as the city of Themiskyra on the Black Sea...

Hippolyta, or Hippolyte, was a queen of the Amazons in Greek mythology. A daughter of Ares, the Greek god of war, and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, she is a significant figure in the legends of Hercules and Theseus. In the present day, she...

Roman sculpture in pentellic marble. An amazon rider is about to deal the fatal blow to a barbarian. This marble sculpture is influenced by the 2nd century BCE Pergamene school of sculpture and itself dates from the mid-2nd century CE. Provenance...

An ancient Roman mosaic from the 4th century CE depicting an Amazon warrior in mounted combat against a Greek rider. The Greek is seizing the Phrygian cap of the Amazon. Cropped detail of a mosaic from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch on the Orontes...

Statue of an Amazon on horseback. Marble. 2nd Century CE Roman copy of a 2nd Century BCE Greek original. (National Archaeological Museum of Naples)

The "Amazon Sarcophagus", a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)

A depiction of an Amazon warrior from a 2nd century CE Attic relief slab. (Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens).

Terracotta plate depicting an Amazon carrying her dead comrade. Made c. 510 BCE. Attica. Black-figure pottery. 12.4 cm (5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Sculpture depicting either Hippolyta, Antiope or Armed Venus preparing for battle. Work by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860. Located at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Fragment of a Roman mosaic depicting two Amazons. Early 3rd century CE, from the House of Ostriches in Sousse, Tunisia. (Archeological Museum of Sousse)