An Amazon, wife of Ares, who first founded the temple of Diana at Ephesus.1
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Hyginus records that Otrera, an Amazon and wife of Mars, first founded the temple of Diana at Ephesus — the sanctuary later counted among the wonders of the world.2
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In the same author's Trojan roll Otrera appears as queen of the Amazons and mother by Mars of Hippolyte, whose belt Heracles took, and of Penthesilea, whom Achilles slew before the walls of Troy.3
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