1. A daughter of Ares and Otrera, was queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and
Melanippe. She wore, as an emblem of her dignity, a girdle given to her by her father; and
when Heracles, by the command of Eurystheus, came to fetch this girdle, Hippolyte was slain by
Heracles. (HERACLES; Hyg. Fab. 30.)
According to another tradition, Hippolyte, with an army of Amazons, marched into Attica, to
take vengeance on Theseus for having carried off Antiope; but being conquered by Theseus, she
fled to Megara, where she died of grief, and was buried. Her tomb, which was shown there in
later times, had the form of an Amazon's shield. (Paus. 1.41.7;
Plut. Thes. 27; Apollod.
2.5.9; Apollon. 2.968.) In some accounts Hippolyte is
said to have been married to Theseus instead of Antiope. Euripides, in his