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- Penthesilea – Mythopedia
Overview Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and Otrera, was an Amazon queen who fought and died in the Trojan War After Hector, the leader of the Trojan army, was killed in the final year of the war, Penthesilea arrived with a small but highly skilled troop of Amazon warriors to help the doomed city against the G
- Hippolyta - Mythopedia
In another myth—probably known in some form since the time of Homer—Penthesilea came to help the Trojans fight the Greeks before ultimately being killed by Achilles But according to some sources, the reason Penthesilea came to Troy in the first place was that she had accidentally killed her sister Hippolyta while hunting: aiming her spear
- Achilles – Mythopedia
Penthesilea and Memnon Following Hector’s death, the Trojans received aid from the Amazons The Amazons were a race of warrior women who claimed to be descended from the war god Ares Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, fought bravely against the Greeks but was finally killed by Achilles When Achilles saw the beautiful Amazon lying dead
- Amazons – Mythopedia
Penthesilea briefly wreaked havoc on the Greek army Eventually, however, she was slain by Achilles, the greatest of the Greek heroes at Troy After killing Penthesilea, Achilles took pity on the beautiful young queen (in some traditions, he even fell in love with her) But it was too late: Penthesilea was dead Between Myth and History
- Antiope (daughter of Ares) – Mythopedia
Apollodorus, Epitome 1 16–17; cf 5 2, where the name of Theseus’ Amazon bride is Hippolyta rather than Antiope, and where Apollodorus records that in some versions it was Hippolyta’s Amazon companion Penthesilea who (accidentally) killed her in the struggle ↩; Hyginus, Fabulae 241, trans Mary Grant See also Ovid, Heroides 4 117ff ↩
- Erinyes (Furies) – Mythopedia
For example, the Amazon queen Penthesilea comes to fight at Troy in order to escape the Erinyes pursuing her for accidentally killing her sister Hippolyta Nonnus (fifth century CE): The Erinyes appear a few times in the epic poem Dionysiaca, which relates the travels of the young god Dionysus Roman
- Greek Heroes – Mythopedia
Hesiod, Works and Days 160 ↩; Hesiod, Works and Days 109–79 Cf Ovid, Metamorphoses 1 89–112 ↩; Cf Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, 2nd ed (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 118–210, where the heroes of epic and myth are distinguished from the heroes of cult
- Agamemnon - Mythopedia
Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, was a general and hero who led the Greek army to victory in the Trojan War He was later murdered by his wife Clytemnestra
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