Harmothoe (mythology)
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Harmothoe (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμοθόη) is the name of two personages in Greek mythology.
- Harmothoe, the "dark-eyed" Amazonian warrior.[1] She was one of Penthesilea's twelve companions at Troy. Harmothoe was killed in the Trojan War by the hero Achilles, according to Quintus Smyrnaeus's Fall of Troy:[2]
- Harmothoë, the wife of Pandareus and mother of his children. She followed him to Sicily after he tried to steal from Zeus where they both died.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.43
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.532
- ↑ Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 20.517
References
- Eustathius of Thessalonica, Scholia Antiqua in Homeri Odysseam, ed. Angelo Mai, Libraria Myliana, 1821. Available at google books.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
