Introduction: The appeal of the Amazons

Figures & data

Figure 1. Lesbian pride flag displaying labrys.

Source: Thespoondragon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Figure 2. Maenad hunter presenting Penthesilea a hare. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 15002. Drawing R. Damengel. © Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Figure 3. Amazons swimming and bathing. Red-figure amphora, Andocides Painter. Musée du Louvre F203. Photo Credit: Erich Lesser/Art Resource, NY.

Figure 4. Amazonomachy. Attic black-figure small-neck amphora. Metropolitan Museum of Art 61.11.16. Purchase: Christos G. Bastis Gift, 1961.

Figure 5. Attic black-figure tyrrhenian neck amphora by the timiades painter. Boston Museum of Fine Arts 98.916.

Figure 6. Scythian archer on a black-figure pinax. British Museum, Accession No. 1867, 0508.941.

Figure 7. Red-figure terracotta lekythos. Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number 31.11.13.