Otrera

A queen of the Amazons, daughter or wife of Ares, and the mother of Penthesilea and Hippolyte. She is said to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

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References

Sources

  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 225.
  • Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, i, 1033.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.