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Themiscyra
The Amazon city on the river Thermodon on the southern Black Sea coast, where Heracles went in his ninth labour for the war-belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyta.
About Themiscyra
Amazon shore, Hippolyta's belt
Apollodorus 2.5.9: the ninth labor is Hippolyta's girdle, a gift of Ares, at Themiscyra on the Thermodon. The Amazons receive him until Hera starts a rumor; fighting follows; the belt is taken. Herodotus later historicizes Amazons; the labor does not. Themiscyra is a Black Sea address for a female warrior politeia. The girdle is a token, not a city's constitution.
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Themiscyra among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
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- Apollodorus, Library 2.5.9
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