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===The Isle of Lemnos===
The isle of [[Lemnos]] is situated in the north [[Aegean Sea]], near the Western coast of [[Asia Minor]] (modern day [[Turkey]]).

The island was inhabited by a race of women who had killed their husbands. The women had neglected their worship of [[Aphrodite]], and as a punishment the goddess made the women so foul in stench that their husbands could not bear to be near them. The men then took [[concubine]]s from the [[Thrace|Thracian]] mainland opposite, and the spurned women, angry at Aphrodite, killed all the male inhabitants while they slept. The king, [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]], was saved by [[Hypsipyle]], his daughter, who put him out to sea sealed in a chest from which he was later rescued. The women of Lemnos lived for a while without men, with [[Hypsipyle]] as their queen.
 
During the visit of the Argonauts the women mingled with the men creating a new "race" called [[Minyae]]. Jason fathered twins with the queen. Heracles pressured them to leave as he was disgusted by the antics of the Argonauts. He had not taken part, which is truly unusual considering the numerous affairs he had with other women.<ref group="note">In ''Hercules, My Shipmate'' [[Robert Graves]] claims that Heracles fathered more children than anyone else of the crew.</ref>