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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.
She appears in Homer's Illiad (written 700 BCE?), the Aethiopis (600 BCE?), Virgil's Aenid (29-19 BCE), and Kleist's adaptation (1808 CE).