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The Amazon Klonie, after slaying her first opponent, is in turn killed. Penthesilea mows through the Greek lines, killing eight warriors, and cuts the arm off the Greek warrior who had killed Klonie. Penthesilea's Amazon comrades Bremusa, Evandre and Thermodosa fight valiantly alongside her but are slain, and so are Derinoe, Alkibie and Derimachea.
Reconstruction of the late antique Hunting Amazons mosaic. The Amazons were a group or race of female warriors in Ancient Greek mythology. Most of them are only briefly named in one or two sources, either as companions of Penthesilea at the Trojan War, or as being killed by Heracles during his 12 labours.
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [10] It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym *ha-mazan-'warriors', a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν.
This Amazon is believed to be the Amazon queen Hippolyta. Behind Heracles is a scene of a Greek warrior clashing shields with an Amazon warrior. Another slab displays a mounted Amazon charging at a Greek, who is defending himself with a raised shield. This Greek is believed to be Theseus, who joined Heracles during his labors.
In Greek Mythology, Bremusa (Ancient Greek: Βρεμούσα means " furious female" was one of a group of 12 Amazonian warriors. She was born in Themiskyra in 1204 BC [1] and fought with Penthesilea. [2]
Gargareans (Gargari) in the North Caucasus on a fragment of Henry Teesdale's map of the Ancient Roman Empire.In Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, (Greek: Γαργαρείς Gargareis) were an all-male tribe.
Lampedo from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum by Guillaume Rouillé. Lampedo (Greek for "burning torch"; also Lampeto) is an Amazon queen mentioned in Roman historiography. [1] She ruled with her sister Marpesia.
Another version states Antiope waged war on Theseus to avenge him marrying Phaedra. In some myths, Hippolyta was killed during the ninth labor when Heracles attempted to obtain her girdle peacefully until the Amazons attacked him, and Theseus, who had joined Hercules during his expedition, abducted Hippolyta's sister Antiope, who was an Amazon ...