Harmothoe (mythology)

Harmothoe (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμοθόη) is the name of two personages in Greek mythology.

Harmothoe, the "dark-eyed" Amazonian warrior.^[1] She was one of Penthesilea's twelve companions at Troy. Harmothoe was killed in the Trojan War by the hero Achilles, according to Quintus Smyrnaeus's Fall of Troy:^[2]
Harmothoë, the wife of Pandareus and mother of his children. She followed him to Sicily after he tried to steal from Zeus where they both died.^[3]

Notes

^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.43
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.532
^ Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 20.517

References

Eustathius of Thessalonica, Scholia Antiqua in Homeri Odysseam, ed. Angelo Mai, Libraria Myliana, 1821. Available at google books.
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library

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