Amazons were warrior women of Greek legend believed to have lived on the northern fringes of Greece, modern Thrace and toward the Black Sea. Machos is the Greek word for battle. Amazonomachies were legendary battles between Greeks and Amazons. These foreign creatures succomed in myth to the likes of Herakles and Theseus, but they were objects of sympathy and fascination. For discussion of the major battles of Greek legend see Amazons in Greek Mythology. For representation of Amazonomachies in ancient art see Amazons in Greek & Roman Art. Pheidias represented an Amazonomachy on the shield of the Athena Parthenos, the monumental cult statue of the Parthenon. Another representation was painted by Micon, on the Stoa Poikile at the Ancient Agora of Athens. In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a land dominated by women at the outer edges of their known world. ... Thrace (Greek Θράκη, Thrákē, Latin: Thracia or Threcia, Turkish Trakya, Bulgarian Тракия, Trakiya) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a land dominated by women at the outer edges of their known world. ... In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a land dominated by women at the outer edges of their known world. ... Phidias, (or Pheidias), son of Charmides, (circa 490 BC - circa 430 BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor, universally regarded as the greatest of Greek sculptors. ... This article is about the goddess Athena. ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... Micon was a Greek painter and sculptor in the middle of the fifth century B.C. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa Poikile (“Painted Portico”), at Athens, with paintings of the battle of Marathon and other battles. ... The Painted Porch (Stoa poikile), during the 3rd century BC, was where Zeno of Citium taught Stoicism. ... Remains of the agora built in Athens in the Roman period (east of the classical agora). ...