Theseus

And it is not astonishing that history, when dealing with events of such great antiquity, should wander in uncertainty, indeed, we are also told that the wounded Amazons were secretly sent away to Chalcis by Antiope, and were nursed there, and some were buried there, near what is now called the Amazoneum. But that the war ended in a solemn treaty is attested not only by the naming of the place adjoining the Theseum, which is called Horcomosium,[*](From the oaths of ratification.) but also by the sacrifice which, in ancient times, was offered to the Amazons before the festival of Theseus.

And the Megarians, too, show a place in their country where Amazons were buried, on the way from the market-place to the place called Rhus[*](Stream, because water from the mountains above the city once flowed this way. Paus. 1.41.), where the Rhomboid[*](The Rhomboid may have been an irregular mound.) stands. And it is said, likewise, that others of them died near Chaeroneia, and were buried on the banks of the little stream which, in ancient times, as it seems, was called Thermodon, but nowadays, Haemon; concerning which names I have written in my Life of Demosthenes.[*](Plut. Dem. 19) It appears also that not even Thessaly was traversed by the Amazons without opposition, for Amazonian graves are to this day shown in the vicinity of Scotussa and Cynoscephalae.