Theseus, king of Athens, killing the Amazon queen Hippolyta with a spear. Hippolyta wears Anassiridi pantalons, Scythian shoes and a tunic decorated with stars. The Amazon warrior Deinomache, wearing an old Scythian style tunic, defends her queen with Scythian bow and quiver of arrows. Combattimento di Teseo con Ippolita. From a Roman vase. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by B. Andrei from Giulio Ferrario’s Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1847.

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