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hippolyta
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What does hippolyta mean?
proper noun
- An Amazonian queen who possessed a magic girdle given to her by her father, Ares.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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Then Hippolyta, the bride, led by Pirithous, and another holding a garland over her head, her tresses likewise hanging.
He had picked up a trifle, he said, which was rather a curiosity, it was an ancient Greek dagger of the Mycenaean Epoch, and might well have been worn in the time of Theseus and Hippolyta.
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At length, after four months, a peace was concluded between them by the mediation of Hippolyta (for so this historian calls the Amazon whom Theseus married, and not Antiope), though others write that she was slain with a dart by Molpadia, while fighting by Theseus's side, and that the pillar which stands by the temple of Olympian Earth was erected to her honor.