User:Cjsando/Attic War

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The Attic War is the conflict between the Amazons and the Athenians￼, The Amazons were led by queen Penthesilea￼, And the Athenians were led by Hercules. The war lasted 4 months and concluded with a peace treaty in Horeomosium, near the temple of Theseus.

The Amazons fought to free ￼Antiope or her sister Hippolyta from captivity after her abduction at the hands of a Greek hero depending on the version of the myth you are reading. Another version states Antiope waged war on Theseus to avenge him marrying Phaedra.

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Many different variations of the myths exist, one says that Hippolyta or Antiope bring about the peace treaty. Another myth states that Antiope was slain while fighting with the side of Theseus when a javelin thrown by an Amazon named Molpadia hit her. In another version where Antiope is the wife of Theseus relates that Antiope helped secretly transport wounded Amazons for treatment on the island of Chalkis, where some of them were buried in a place that later became known as the Amazoneum. A peace treaty was concluded on the 4th month of the war in the Horeomosium (near the temple of Theseus). The Athenians agreed to make sacrifices to the Amazons before each festival of Theseus. Plutarch writes that more Amazon graves were near Chaeronea (by the stream of Haemon, anciently known as Thermodon) and more burial places across Thessaly (Skotussa and Cynoscephalae) suggest that the Amazons had to fight more battles with other Greeks on their way back to their homeland. Plutarch also visited burial places of Amazons at Megara, where he mentions a lozange-shaped Amazon crypt is located.