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Ancient Greek Ἀμαζονομαχία (Amazonomakhía).

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  • IPA(key): /ˌæməzəˈnɒməki/
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Amazonomachy (plural Amazonomachies)

  1. A battle with Amazons, especially their defeat by men; an artistic representation of such a scene.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      The Amazonomachia, or Amazon contest, symbolized the struggle of civilization against barbarism.
    • 1998, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford, published 2004, page 31:
      Heracles' ninth labour was to fetch the girdle of the Amazon queen, Hippolyte, resulting in another Amazonomachy (Apollod. 4. 16).

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