Images

This archaic wine-mixing vessel depicts a war between Amazon warriors and Greeks. Attributed to the Group of Rhodes, c. 540 BCE. Black-figure pottery. 18.5 cm (7 1/4 in) in diameter. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Red-figure wine jar decorated with a battle between Amazons and Greeks. Attributed to the Amazon Painter, mid-4th century BCE. Attica. 43.2 cm (17 in) in height. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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)

Detail of a painted alabaster sarcophagus depicting an Amazonomachy. Etruscan culture. c. 300 BCE. Tarquinia, Italy. (De Feis Etruscan Archaeological Museum)

Roman bust of an Amazon carrying a sheathed sword and wearing an Eastern-style cap. Bronze. 1st Century CE. 14.5 cm (5.7 in) in height. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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

Bottom register of a red-figure lekythos. This scene depicts the Greeks, led by Theseus, engaged in combat with the Amazons led by Queen Hippolyte. Attributed to the Eretria Painter, c. 420 BCE. Attica. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Red-figure case painting depicting an "Amazonomachy," a battle between between Greeks and Amazon warriors. Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs. Made in Attica, c. 450 BCE. Height: 63.5 cm (25 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Fragment of an Apulian vase painting depicting Hercules with the Amazonian queen Hippolyte. Terracotta volute-krater attributed to the Baltimore Painter. c. 330–310 BCE. 19.4 cm (7.5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)