Marpesia

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For the brush-footed butterfly genus, see Marpesia (butterfly).

Marpesia ("snatcher") was Queen of the Amazonia women with Lampedo ("burning torch") her sister. They ruled with the ruler Hippo ("horse") after the death of Lysippe.[1] Marpesia was one of the rulers whom helped establish the Greek city of Ephesus.[2] She also established a city in the Caucasus Mountains referred to as the Rock of Marpesia or the Marpesian Cliff.[3] Alexander the Great sometime later built gates here which were called the Caspian Gates.[4] This was an area on the Thermodon River in Cappadocia. These sisters extended the Amazon influence to Europe and greater Asia Minor becoming an object of terror to that part of the world. Marpesia was succeeded by her daughters Synope and Orithya [5] after she was killed in battle of a sudden invasion by Asian barbarian invaders.[6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Famous Amazons Famous Members of the Amazon Nation.
  2. ^ Famous members of the Amazon nation
  3. ^ Rock of Marpesia Chapter 7: The Amazones. The Caucasus.
  4. ^ Caspian Gates Section 7 Paragraph 50
  5. ^ Synope and Orithya Marpesia's daughters
  6. ^ Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, p. 25-27; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9

[edit] References

  • Justinus Epitoma Historiarum philippicarum Pompei Trogi II.4.1-16
  • Orosius Historiae adversus paganos I.15.1-6