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Stilled for ever was the beating of her heart. She fell, as falls a graceful-shafted pine hewn mid the hills by woodmen: heavily, sighing through all its boughs, it crashes down. So with a wailing shriek she fell, and death unstrung her every limb: her breathing soul mingled with multitudinous-sighing winds." [4]
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.
The foundation is named after Prince's son Kiyan - an academy footballer who was stabbed to death outside his school's gates in 2006. Charity founder Dr Mark Prince receives Helen Rollason Award ...
A former Ohio State University employee died after she was stabbed near the campus, police say. Officers were called to the University District near the OSU campus on reports of a stabbing Sept 9 ...
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Sunday will mark a year since Denzel Bimpey was stabbed to death in New York City while on his way home from college in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity.
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [13] 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.
Two women were fatally stabbed in their U.K. apartment on Christmas Day and now a 49-year-old man is charged with double murder in connection with their deaths as well as the non-fatal stabbings ...