Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
  Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
• Ninth Labor: The Amazons (Melanippe’s Ransom — No Murder of Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Heracles · Diodorean (pitched Amazon war; Melanippe freed for her girdle as ransom; Antiope given to Theseus; Hippolyte not the slain prize-bearer)
• Theseus and the Amazons: Antiope (or Hippolyte)
  Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean / Plutarchan (Theseus takes Amazon bride Antiope or Hippolyte; Amazon invasion of Attica)

Places appearing with them

• Aenus
• Areopagus
• Heraclea
• Mycenae
• Mysia
• Olympia
• Paros
• Rhamnus
• Thasos
• The deep
• Themiscyra
• Thermodon
• Torone
• Troy

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• War