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Hippolyte

Greek mythology

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Heracles

In Heracles
…taking of the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons; (10) the seizing of the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, who ruled the island Erytheia (meaning red) in the far west; (11) the bringing back of the golden apples kept at the world’s end by the Hesperides; and (12)…
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Theseus

In Theseus
Hippolyte). As a result, the Amazons attacked Athens, and Hippolyte fell fighting on the side of Theseus. By her he had a son, Hippolytus, beloved of Theseus’s wife, Phaedra. Theseus is also said to have taken part in the Argonautic expedition and the Calydonian boar…
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