people
The Amazons
also: axe-bearing maidens
The warrior women of myth; Hippolytus's mother was their queen, slain by Theseus.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.32 an Amazon
The warrior-women; to 'overcome an Amazon' is to master a formidable mistress by the poet's art.
- The Heroides §4 the axe-bearing maidens
The Amazons, warrior women; Hippolytus's mother was their queen, slain by Theseus.
- The Heroides §21 Amazonian gold
The golden war-belt of the Amazons, a true trophy — unlike Acontius's trick.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.1 the Amazon's axe
The Amazons, the warrior-women of myth armed with axe and crescent shield (pelta); Ovid's wife need take up no such arms, only prayers and tears.
- Metamorphoses §9.248 Thermodontian gold
The belt of the Amazon queen, taken by Hercules; the Thermodon is the river of the Amazons by the Black Sea.