Amazons — Minor Figures
11 figures from The Fall of Troy who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Antandre
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “But Peleus' son burst on the Amazons Smiting Antandre, Polemusa then,”
Antibrote
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “Antibrote, fierce-souled Hippothoe, Hurling Harmothoe down on sisters slain.”
Harmothoe
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “Antibrote, fierce-souled Hippothoe, Hurling Harmothoe down on sisters slain.”
Hippothoe
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “Antibrote, fierce-souled Hippothoe, Hurling Harmothoe down on sisters slain.”
Polemusa
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “But Peleus' son burst on the Amazons Smiting Antandre, Polemusa then,”
Alcibie
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 3 · with Diomedes “And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore”
Bremusa
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 3 · with Idomeneus “Then with his lance Idomeneus thrust out, And by the right breast stabbed Bremusa.”
Derimacheia
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 3 · with Diomedes “And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore”
Evandre
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 3 · with Meriones “Then, as Evandre through the murderous fray With Thermodosa rushed, stood Meriones, A lion in the path, and slew: his spear Right to the heart of one he drave”
Hippolyte
Penthesileia's sister · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · siblings with Penthesileia “Lest they of her own folk should rail on her Because of her own sister's death, for whom Ever her sorrows waxed, Hippolyte,”
- Book I · Part 1 · with Penthesileia “Whom she had struck dead with her mighty spear, Not of her will--'twas at a stag she hurled.”
Thermodosa
princess and handmaid · first appears Book I · Part 1
- Book I · Part 1 · employer: Penthesileia “Far-famous each, yet handmaids unto her:”
- Book I · Part 3 · with Meriones “Then, as Evandre through the murderous fray With Thermodosa rushed, stood Meriones, A lion in the path, and slew: his spear Right to the heart of one he drave”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.