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+ | ====== Penelope ====== | ||
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====== Penthesilea ====== | ====== Penthesilea ====== | ||
is the Queen of the Amazons. She is the daughter of Ares, god of war, and Ortrera. Her sisters are Hippolyta, Melanippe, and Antiope. [[https:// | is the Queen of the Amazons. She is the daughter of Ares, god of war, and Ortrera. Her sisters are Hippolyta, Melanippe, and Antiope. [[https:// | ||
She appears in the [[Aethiopis]] (600 BCE?), [[Virgil]]' | She appears in the [[Aethiopis]] (600 BCE?), [[Virgil]]' | ||
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+ | ====== Rhea ====== | ||
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+ | Mother of Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, all of which Kronos ate because he feared one of them would overthrow and kill him. So Rhea fled and Ouranos and Gaia both hatached a plan with ehr. She went to the goat Amalthea and the nymph Meliae. They got a big loadstone and swaddled it. Rhea pretends to be in labor, sure enough Kronos comes, snataches up the fake-baby and eats it. When he leaves, teh still pregnant Rhea slips off to create where eh goat and teh nymph help her give birth to Zeus. (Fry 26-29) | ||
====== Artemis ====== | ====== Artemis ====== |