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Theseus joined Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons and carried off Antiope,
or, as some say, Melanippe; but Simonides calls her Hippolyte.1 Wherefore the
Amazons marched against Athens, and having
taken up a position about the Areopagus2 they were vanquished by the Athenians under Theseus. And
though he had a son Hippolytus by the Amazon,
1 As to Theseus and the Amazons, see Diod. 4.28; Plut. Thes. 26-28; Paus. 1.2.1; Paus. 1.15.2; Paus. 1.41.7; Paus. 2.32.9; Paus. 5.11.4 and Paus. 5.11.7; Zenobius, Cent. v.33. The invasion of Attica by the Amazons in the time of Theseus is repeatedly referred to by Isocrates （Isoc. 4.68, 70, 4.42, 7.75, 12.193）. The Amazon whom Theseus married, and by whom he had Hippolytus, is commonly called Antiope （Plut. Thes. 26; Plut. Thes. 28; Diod. 4.28; Paus. 1.2.1; Paus. 1.41.7; Seneca, Hippolytus 927ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 30）. But according to Clidemus, in agreement with Simonides, her name was Hippolyte （Plut. Thes. 27）, and so she is called by Isocrates （Isoc. 12.193）. Pausanias says that Hippolyte was a sister of Antiope （Paus. 1.41.7）. Tzetzes expressly affirms that Antiope, and not Hippolyte, was the wife of Theseus and mother of Hippolytus （Scholiast on Lycophron 1329）. The grave of Antiope was shown both at Athens and Megara （Paus. 1.2.1; Paus. 1.41.7）.
2 According to Diod. 4.28.2, the Amazons encamped at the place which was afterwards called the Amazonium. The topography of the battle seems to have been minutely described by the antiquarian Clidemus, according to whom the array of the Amazons extended from the Amazonium to the Pnyx, while the Athenians attacked them from the Museum Hill on one side and from Ardettus and the Lyceum on the other. See Plut. Thes. 27.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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