Amazon princess carried off by Theseus and made queen at Athens after the war on Attica — Apollodorus' name for the warrior bride who bore Hippolytus — not to be confused with Antiope the Theban mother of Amphion and Zethus.1
After he was king, Apollodorus says, Theseus joined Heracles in a campaign against the Amazons — or raided them alone — and carried away a princess whom he names Antiope. Others call the captive Melanippe, and Simonides calls her Hippolyte; the sources never agree on the Amazon's name, and she must not be merged with Antiope daughter of Nycteus who fled to Epopeus and bore Amphion.2⚖
Her sisters marched on Attica in vengeance and encamped on the height later called the Amazonium. Theseus met them in battle, routed their host, and by the captive begot Hippolytus — the hunter who would scorn Aphrodite and fall to his stepmother's charge and his father's curse.3
Hyginus lists the Amazon campaign among Theseus' deeds and preserves the rival names in the tradition that made Athens remember the war on the Palatine slope and Megara show Hippolyte's tomb shaped like an Amazon's shield.4
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