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Hippolyte (Melanippe or Glauce)
An Amazon Queen. This Hippolyte was also sometimes called Melanippe or Glauce. She shouldn't be confused with the Queen Hippolyte who the owner of ...
By Jimmy Joe
Penthesileia
An Amazon queen. Penthesileia was the daughter of the war god Ares and Otrere. Penthesileia was as superb and fierce a warrior as she was beautiful...
By Jimmy Joe
Melanippe
An Amazon warrior. Melanippe (Μελανίππη) was probably the same person as Antiope , sister of Hippolyte . She was also sometimes known as Glauce. Ac...
By Jimmy Joe
Antiope
There is some confusion over the name of the Amazon who became the wife of the Athenian hero Theseus, and the mother of Hippolytus. Some called her...
By Jimmy Joe
Hippolyte
There seemed to be a number of Amazon queens with the name Hippolyte or Hippolyta (Ἱππολύτη). Each one died by a different hand. The Hippolyte that...
By Jimmy Joe
Otrere
An Amazon Queen. Otrere was the mother of Penthesileia , and according to Quintus Smyrnaeus, in the Fall of Troy, the mother of Hippolyte (sometime...
By Jimmy Joe
Myrina
A Libyan Amazon queen. Nothing is known about Myrina, except in the account of Diodorus Siculus' Library of History (1st century BC). Her capital w...
By Jimmy Joe
Background
Breastless Warriors Amazons in Libya Breastless Warriors The mythological woman warrior with a leopard hide on her head, holding either a spear and...
By Jimmy Joe
Amazons
The Amazons (Ἀμαζόνες) were a race of women warriors that hasn't only appeared in Greek mythology, but also in other cultures. The Amazons became p...
By Jimmy Joe
Vafthrudnir: Contest of Wisdom
The dialogue in Vafthrudnismal ("Vafthrudnir's Sayings") begin with Odin telling his wife Frigg that he would visit the giant Vafthrudnir , who was...
By Jimmy Joe
Sacrifice: Hanging and Runes
In the Havamal ("Sayings of the High One"), Odin recorded the time he spent learning the magic from runes. 138 I know that I hanged on a windy tree...
By Jimmy Joe
Mead of Poetry
Kvasir Shortly after the war between Aesir and Vanir , there was a hostage exchange between the two warring tribes. Kvasir , the wisest among the V...