Penthesilea Greek Amazon queen who led her female warriors to Troy to help the Trojans in the Trojan War.
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Penthesilea Greek Amazon queen who led her female warriors to Troy to help the Trojans in the Trojan War. Penthesilea fought bravely against Achilles, the Greek hero. It is said that she was so brave and beautiful that Achilles fell in love with her even as he killed her. King Priam of Troy gave her a magnificent funeral. In some accounts Penthesilea inadvertently killed her sister, Hippolyta, and was forever after pursued by the Furies.
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- Myrmidons Greek Warlike people of ancient Thessaly, in the eastern part of the Greek mainland, who accompanied the hero Achilles into battle in the Trojan War.
- Nestor Greek King of Pylos (on the west coast of Messenia, in the Peloponnesus) and, at 60 years old, the oldest and most experienced of the chieftains who fought in the Trojan War.
- Omphale Greek The queen of Lydia who took the hero Heracles as her slave after he had desecrated the temple of Apollo.
- Priam Greek King of Troy during the Trojan War, though too old to take an active part in the war.
- Iphigenia Greek Daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War; sister of Electra and Orestes.