1) Mythological queen 2) Offspring of Ares 3) One-act opera 4) Opera by Othmar Schoeck 5) Play adapted into opera 6) Woman of the Trojan war
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Penthesilea (Greek: Πενθεσίλεια) or Penthesileia was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope and Melanippe. Quintus Smyrnaeus explains more fully than pseudo-Apollodorus how Penthesilea came to be at Troy: Penthesilea had killed Hippolyta with a spear when they were hun...
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[Kleist] Penthesilea (1808) is a tragedy by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist about the mythological Amazon queen, Penthesilea, described as an exploration of sexual frenzy. Goethe rejected it as `unplayable`. ==Summary== The drama opens on the battlefield before the gates of Troy, where the Greeks are besieging the city and are int...
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[moth] Penthesilea is a genus of moths of the Pyralidae family. ...
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[opera] ==Roles== ==Synopsis== The story is about the tragic love of Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, and Achilles. Achilles has defeated the Amazon queen Penthesilea in battle. However, he falls in love with her. After Penthesilea has recovered, Achilles allows her to think that she defeated him, because Amazon law stipulates a warrior m...
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(from the article `Achilles`) ...Odyssey mentions his funeral. The poet Arctinus in his Aethiopis took up the story of the Iliad and related that Achilles, having slain the ...
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In Greek mythology, daughter of Ares the god of war, queen of the
Amazons,...
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daughter of Ares and Otrere; Amazon queen killed by Achilles at Troy where she and her warriors had gone to help Priam; see the death of Penthesilea on Toledo .
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