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{{Short description|Amazon in Greek mythology}}
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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Areto''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀρετώ}} "virtuous") was an [[Amazons|Amazon]].
Her name is not attested in literary sources, and is known solely from an [[Attic]] [[black-figure pottery|black-figure]] vase painting.
==References==
*[[Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft]]. Band II, Halbband 3, ''Apollon-Artemis'' (1895): s. 681, s. v. ''Areto'' ('''in German''')
*[[Josine Blok|Blok, Josine H.]] The early Amazons: modern and ancient perspectives on a persistent myth. BRILL, 1995; [https://books.google.com/books?id=vHzLgcqHzQcC&dq=%22Areto%22++%22Iphito%22&pg=PA218 page 218] (with a reference to ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae]]'', "Amazones" entry, vol. 1, p.&nbsp;653)
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