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Roman sculpture in pentellic marble. An amazon rider is about to deal the fatal blow to a barbarian. This marble sculpture is influenced by the 2nd century BCE Pergamene school of sculpture and itself dates from the mid-2nd century CE. Provenance...

Statue of an Amazon on horseback. Marble. 2nd Century CE Roman copy of a 2nd Century BCE Greek original. (National Archaeological Museum of Naples)

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)

A black-figure amphora depicting Hercules and an Amazon. Attica, Greece, 6th century BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)

Terracotta plate depicting an Amazon carrying her dead comrade. Made c. 510 BCE. Attica. Black-figure pottery. 12.4 cm (5 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The first female warrior attested to historically is Queen Ahhotep I of Egypt (l. c. 1570-1530 BCE) who put down a rebellion by the Hyksos when her son, Ahmose I, was campaigning against the Nubians. In literature, the first mention of women...

Amazon warriors frequently appeared in the art, literature, and mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The idea of a female warrior society existing on the fringes of civilization continues to capture the imagination of modern generations...

In many cultures of antiquity women had to battle the disadvantages of rules and conventions made for men and by men who dominated government, public life, and society. Nevertheless, many ancient religions had powerful female goddesses like...

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

Sculpture depicting either Hippolyta, Antiope or Armed Venus preparing for battle. Work by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860. Located at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.