people
the Amazons
The warrior women of the Thermodon, husbandless; their queen yielded her belt to Hercules, the ninth labor.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §203 the Amazon
The Amazons, warrior-women of the Thermodon; Penthesilea fought and died for Troy.
- Hercules (Mad) §250 the queen of the husbandless people
Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons by the river Thermodon; Hercules took her belt (a labor).
- Hercules on Oeta §1 the Thermodontian foe
The Amazons, who dwelt by the river Thermodon; Hercules took the war-belt of their queen Hippolyta.
- Hercules on Oeta §1186 an Amazon, born beneath the Scythian sky
The Amazons, warrior women of the north; Hercules wishes he had at least fallen to such a foe rather than a wife.
- Phaedra §223 Amazon breed
The Amazons, the warrior women from whom Hippolytus descends.
- The Trojan Women §234 savage Amazon
The warrior women; their queen Penthesilea, 'the last terror,' fell to Achilles at Troy.