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Hippolyte, Queen of The Amazons

Hippolyte, Queen of The Amazons

  • These warrior women, it is reputed, lived on the river Thermedon (today's Terme), on the southern shores of the Black Sea.
  • In legend, they captured men and used them as studs, rearing only female children and killing the males.
  • The Amazon nation was the ultimate imagined threat to Greek machismo.

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