CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Themis, Amazonomachy, Eternal Youth
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Hippolytus = son of theseus and amazon queen his devotion to artemis has to do with the. The amazons (non civilized) = always assc with artemis. Fight on the side of the trojans against the grs and achilles during the trojan war. Hybrid in the sense of sharing both m + f attributes. Mythical queen of the amazons myth: most important myth is about theseus, who tries to abduct their queen, antiope, and brings her back to athens. After that, the amazons want to get her back fight the athenians = amazonomachy* Penthesilea killed in combat by achilles, who fell in love with her as she died. The centaurs are sometimes said to originate from apollo. The amazons, like centaurs, a single-sex culture often rep together (the shield of athena parthenos in. Image = the abduction of antiope by the expedition of.
