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Amazonomachias

Amazonomachias is the plural of Amazonomachia.

Meaning of Amazonomachia

Noun

Amazonomachia (plural Amazonomachias or Amazonomachiae or (rare) Amazonomachiai)

  1. (Ancient Greece) A battle with Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene.
    • In style these vases have the general Apulian type, and their art is of the same late period. […] Among the subjects are the usual Eros and Aphrodite of this style, Phrixos crossing the Hellespont on the ram, Orestes at Delphi, the sacrifice of the ram of Tantalos, Aktaion seized by his dogs, the...1873, Samuel Birch, chapter X, in History of Ancient Pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, new edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 422–423
    Synonyms:
    Amazonomachy

Questions about Amazonomachias

What is Amazonomachias the plural of?
Amazonomachias is the plural of Amazonomachia.

Words near Amazonomachias in the dictionary

  1. amazonites
  2. amazonitic
  3. Amazonomachia
  4. Amazonomachiae
  5. Amazonomachiai
  6. Amazonomachias
  7. Amazonomachies
  8. Amazonomachy
  9. amazons
  10. amazonstone
  11. amazonstones

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