Editing Amazons (section)

===Amazon queens===
[[File:Archaeological museum, Athens (4976609478).jpg|thumb|right|Caryatid Amazon from the villa of [[Herodes Atticus]], 2nd century CE, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens|National Archaeological Museum]] of [[Athens]].]]

Sources provide names of individual Amazons, that are referred to as queens of their people, even as the head of a dynasty. Without a male companion, they are portrayed in command of their female warriors. Among the most prominent Amazon queens were:

* [[Otrera]], daughter of the nymph Harmonia and god of war, Ares. She is the mother of Hippolyta, Antiope, Melanippe, and Penthesilea and the mythical founder of the [[Temple of Artemis]] in Ephesus.
*[[Hippolyta]], daughter of Otrera and Ares. She is part of the Theseus and Heracles myths, in which Antiope is her sister. Alcippe, the only Amazon known to have sworn a chastity oath, belongs to her entourage.
* [[Penthesilea]], who kills her sister Hippolyte in a hunting accident, comes to the aid of the hard-pressed Trojans with her warriors, is defeated by Achilles, who mourns her.
* [[Lampedo]] and [[Marpesia]], queens of the Amazons mentioned by [[Justin (historian)|Justin]]
* [[Myrina (mythology)|Myrina]], who leads a military expedition in Libya, defeats the Atlanteans, forms an alliance with the ruler of Egypt, and conquers numerous cities and islands.
* [[Thalestris]], the last known Amazon queen. According to legend, she meets the Greek conqueror [[Alexander the Great]] in 330 BCE. Her home is the Thermodon region, or, variably, the [[Gates of Alexander]], south of the Caspian Sea.