Imagining the Amazons: Women Warriors in Greco-Roman Art
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This ancient Romanmosaic from the 4th century CE depicts 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 (modern Antakya, Turkey). Louvre, Paris.
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