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Penthesilea
Sign in to savePenthesilea () was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus. The asteroid 271 Penthesilea, discovered in 1887, was named in her honor.
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- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.member_of
- the Amazons
- Deity.image
- Penthesilea.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Ancient Greek depiction of Penthesilea
- Deity.siblings
- Hippolyta, Antiope, Melanippe
- Deity.name
- Penthesilea
- Deity.parents
- Ares and Otrera
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- Penthésilée BnF Français 599 fol. 27v.jpg
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23 sectionsContents
- In the Epic Cycle
- Other traditions
- Portrayal in antiquity
- Literature
- Pseudo-Apollodorus
- Lycophron
- Virgil
- Diodorus
- Smyrnaeus
- Art
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- Vase figure
- Later portrayals
- In the Middle Ages
- Boccaccio
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Hugo Wolf
- Edward Bellamy
- Robert Graves
- Judy Grahn
- Notes
- References
Penthesilea () was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus. The asteroid 271 Penthesilea, discovered in 1887, was named in her honor.
== In the Epic Cycle == thumb|Achilles kills Penthesilea; Tondo (art)|tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 470–460 BC, found at [[Vulci]]