Lysippe

  Lysippe1
                                                 In Greek mythology, Lysippe was described as an Amazon and the mother of Tanais by Berossos. Lysippe son, Tanais, only venerated Ares and was fully devoted to war, neglecting love and marriage. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, cursed him with falling in love with his own mother. Preferring to die rather than give up his chastity, he threw himself into the river Amazonius, which was subsequently renamed Tanais.

Lysippe.....Amazon Queen

                                          Lysippe lost her sorrow in work consolidating her queendom, building the city of Themiscyra and raising temples to worship goddess Artemis. In some version, Lysippe was described to led a force of women that were the first to use cavalry in battle.

Lysippe2
                                          In Greek mythology, Lysippe was described as one of the daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia. She was one of the forty-nine of his fifty daughters to sleep with Hercules while he was in Thespia. Lysippe bore Hercules a son, Erasippus. (see Thespiades----------Fifty daughters of King Thespius)

Lysippe3
                                   In Greek mythology, Lysippe was described as the mother of Teuthras the Mysian king. Her son killed a sacred boar of goddess Artemis during hunt and was driven mad by the angry goddess. 

Lysippe then went out in the woods, seeking to find out what had happened to her son. Eventually she learned about the goddess' wrath from the seer Polyidus, she then sacrificed to the goddess to propitiate her, and Teuthras' sanity was restored.

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Molpadia

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       In Greek mythology, Molpadia was described as the daughter of Staphylus (son of Dionysus and Ariadne) and Chrysothemis, and sister of  Parthenos and Rhoeo.

Molpadia or Hemithea

                                       When Lyrcus arrived at Bybastus (town in Caria), a bitter strife arose between Rhoeo and Molpadia, as both fell in love with Lyrcus. Lyrcus was the guest of Staphylus. Staphylus knew about prediction made by oracle at Didyma that Lyrcus would beget a child with the first woman with whom he had sex after leaving the shrine. Staphylus wanted a male heir, so welcomed Lyrcus in a friendly manner and enticed him to much drinking of wine. When Lyrcus had his senses dulled with wine, Staphylus send his daughter, Molpadia, into Lyrcus bed chamber.  Molpadia had sex with drunk Lyrcus and then both fell asleep.

Molpadia and Lyrcus

           The next morning Lyrcus discovered the trap that his host had laid for him. When Lyrcus saw  Molpadia by his side, he was exceedingly angry. He upbraided Staphylus violently for his conduct. Finally seeing that there was nothing to be done, Lyrcus took off his belt and gave it to Molpadia, telling her to keep it until their future child had come of age. Then the child would possess a token by which he might be recognized, if he should ever come to his father at Caunus. Lyrcus sailed away home.  
                             Molpadia gave birth to Basilus. Years later Basilus,  came to the land of Caunus. Lyrcus recognized him as his son, and made him ruler over his peoples.

     Molpadia and Parthenos were put in charge of watching after their father's wine, a drink which had only recently been discovered among men, but fell asleep while performing this duty. While they were asleep some swine which they were keeping entered in and broke the jar which contained the wine and so destroyed the wine. Molpadia and Parthenos when learned what had happened, in fear of their father's wrath, threw themselves off a cliff.    But Apollo, because of his affection for their sister (Rhoeo), rescued them and carried them to two different cities in Chersonesus, Molpadia to Castabus and Parthenos to Bubastus, where both received divine honors.  Molpadia's name was changed to Hemithea, means- "half goddess", because the god Apollo had appeared to men, and she was honored by all who dwelt in the Chersonesus. Hemithea became a local goddess in the Chersonesus.


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                       In Greek mythology, Molpadia was described as an Amazon who was said to have fought for both Antiope and Orithyia.

Molpadia

 She was a participant in the Attic War, where she witnessed her queen Antiope sustain heavy injuries. Antiope was hurt so seriously that she could not defend herself from Theseus and his retainers. Knowing this, Molpadia killed the queen with an arrow or spear, saving her from violation by the Athenian king. According to other version, Molpadia killed Antiope by accident. She was afterwards killed by Theseus, and her tomb was shown at Athens.
                                                             
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Otrera

In Greek mythology, Otrera was described as the first queen of Amazons. Otrera was the daughter of  Eurus (god of east wind).      

Otrera....Amazon

Otrera was wife of Ares (god of war) and mother of Hippolyta, Antiope1, Melanippe, and Penthesilea. According to some version Otrera was described as the daughter and also wife of Ares. Otrera founded the celebrated shrine of Artemis at Ephesus, which was closely connected with Amazons.

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Antiope

 Antiope1
                                                                                                              In Greek mythology, Antiope was described as an Amazon, daughter of Ares. According to some versions, during Hercules' ninth labor, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyte, when he captured the Amazons' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home. Or she was captured by Hercules and then given by him to Theseus. (see 12 labors of Hercules)

Amazon..............Antiope......

                                              Antiope fell in love with Theseus and betrayed the Amazons of her own free will. They were eventually married and she gave birth to a son, Hippolytus, who was named after Antiope's sister. Soon after, the Amazons attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antiope and to take back Hippolyte's girdle. In the battle, known as the Attic War, Antiope was accidentally shot dead by an Amazon named Molpadia2, who, in her turn, was then killed by Theseus.Tombs of both Antiope and Molpadia2 were in Athens.

                                       In other version, the cause for the Amazons' attack on Athens was the fact that Theseus had abandoned Antiope and planned to marry Phaedra. Antiope was furious about this and decided to attack them on their wedding day. She promised to kill every person in attendance. Antiope was killed by Theseus himself.
                                           According to other version, it was not of Antiope, but of Hippolyte, who was abducted and married by Theseus.       
                                                        
Antiope2
                                    In the Greek mythology, Antiope was described as the princess of Boeotian city of Thebe and the daughter of Nycteus, prince of Thebes and Polyxo.  In Some versions, river god Asopus was described as Antiope real father.

Antiope and Zeus in guise of a satyr

Antiope and Zeus in the guise of a satyr

                                                                   Antiope stunning beauty attracted Zeus, the king of gods. Zeus forcefully had sex with Antiope in the guise of a satyr on Mt Cithairon. When Antiope was with child, and her father threatened her, she ran away to Sikyon and marry Epopeus, the king of Sikyon. Nycteus killed himself in despair, but charged his brother Lycus to avenge him on Epopeus and Antiope. Lycus accordingly marched againt Sicyon, took the town, slew Epopeus, and carried Antiope with him to Eleutherae in Boeotia. During her imprisonment there she gave birth to two sons, Amphion and Zethus, who were exposed, but found and brought up by shepherds.

              Hermes, god of music, gave Amphion a lyre, who practiced song and music, while his brother spent his time in hunting and tending the flocks. Antiope, who had in the meantime been very ill-treated by Lycus and his wife, Dirce, escaped from her prison, her chains having miraculously been loosened.  Antiope found shelter, unknowingly, in the house where her two sons were living as shepherds. Antiope sons, recognize their mother, went to Thebes, to avenge their mother.  

Dirce, Amphion and Zethus

 Amphion and Zethus captured Dirce on Mt Cithairon as she was celebrating the revels of Dionysus and tied her to a bull to be torn apart. They then slew King Lycus and seized the throne of Thebes.  Dionysus, god of wine, was offended by the death of his devotee (Dirce), and drove Antiope into a state of madness.  In this condition Antiope wandered about through Greece, until Phocus, the grandson of Sisyphus, cured and married her. She was buried with Phocus in one common tomb.

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Alcippe

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Amazon....Alcippe...

                                 In Greek mythology, Alcippe was described as an Amazon who vowed to remain a virgin. She was killed by Hercules during his ninth labor. (see 12 labor of Hercules)

Alcippe2
        In Greek mythology,Alcippe was described as the daughter of Ares, the god of war, and Aglaulus2.

Alcippe

                     Halirrhotius, the son of the sea god, Poseidon, and Euryte or Bathycleia raped Alcippe or in some version attempted to rape Alcippe, Ares killed him. Ares was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens. The hill that later was named after Ares, the Areopagus. Ares was acquitted in court by all of the other Olympian gods. Latter that place became the site of Athens’s criminal trials.

Alcippe3
    In Greek mythology, Alcippe was described as the daughter of Oenomaus. Alcippe married Evenus, son of Ares and Sterope and bore a daughter Marpessa.

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                                                      In Greek mythology,Alcippe was described as one of the Alcyonides, daughters of Alcyoneus. Along with her sisters she threw herself into the sea and was turned into a kingfisher.

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Amazons

                                         In Greek mythology, Amazons were described as a nation of all-female warriors. According to some versions the Amazons were described as the  daughters of Ares, the god of war. The cities of Cyme, Myrine, Ephesus and Smyrna were founded by the Amazons.

Amazons warriors 

                                   The word "Amazon" means  "without breast", so in some versions it was described that Amazons had their right breast cut off or burnt out because that they might not be hindered by them in throwing the javelin.
                                        No men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country. Once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighboring tribe. The male children who were the result of these visits were killed or sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves. The girls were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war.

Amazons battle

                      In other versions, when the Amazons went to war they would not kill all the men. Some they would take as slaves, and once or twice a year they would have sex with their slave, in order to prevent their race from dying out.

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