zoomachy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]zoomachy (plural zoomachies)
- (rare) A fight between or against animals.
- 2008, Joan Aruz, Marks of Distinction: Seals and Cultural Exchange Between the Aegean and the Orient (ca. 2600–1360 B.C.), Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, →ISBN, page 177:
- Only the bull attacking the lion on the Ashmolean seal resembles an eastern type, its head down and limbs firmly on the ground. […] On this seal, Minoan-inspired combats, engraved in Minoan style, are set in a Near Eastern environment and arranged in a triangular composition that is proper for Syrian zoomachies.