Amazonomachy

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An Amazonomachy (English translation: "Amazon battle"; plural, Amazonomachies or Amazonomachoi) was a portrayal of legendary battle between Greeks and Amazons. These foreign creatures succumbed in myth to the likes of Heracles and Theseus, and symbolised the triumph of Greek or Macedonian civilization over the barbarian.

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