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 golden girdle, which was one of the labours of Heracles.

Hippolyte was possibly the daughter of Otrere and possibly the sister of Penthesileia. According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Hippolyte and Penthesileia were sisters. In a hunting expedition, Penthesileia accidentally killed Hippolyte, with a miscast javelin that was meant for a deer. Not much else is known about Hippolyte. Penthesileia had to go to Troy, where she was purified by Priam, the Trojan King. She became his ally during the last year of Trojan War.