2007-09-11 07:11:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
If you read Lysistrata you will find several Greek "princess" warriors who won a war and stopped war. . . by organizing all Greek women to withold "favors" from The Greek Male Warriors.
2007-09-11 08:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was the Amazon Penthesilea in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
Harmonia, daughter of Ares, rode into battle beside her husband Cadmus in the Illyrian Wars.
There was also a Greek princess who tried to join the Trojan War disguised as a man. But the Greeks discovered her identity and stoned her to death.
Hippolyte was a queen of the Amazons who fought Heracles and other tribes.
Pallas was a companion of the goddess Athena, who was accidentally killed when the two were playing war games.
The god Dionysus led an army against the Indians, with a troop of Bacchantes -- wild women followers of the god who wielded thyrsi (pine-cone tipped staffs) and dressed in leopard skins.
Other "warriors" included the huntresses -- Atalanta who killed centaurs and wounded the Calydonian boar ; and Cyrene who wrestled the Pelian lion.
Thats probably all. Warrior women were extremely unusual in Greek myth.
2007-09-11 21:31:56 · answer #2 · answered by Thalia 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Other than the Amazons and their queen Hipolyta, women in Greek mythology are not given to adventures that take them too far from the domestic space of home and family.
Atalanta might be close to what you are looking for.
(Xena is not a character from Greek mythology.)
2007-09-11 07:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Xena is the only one that comes to mind
2007-09-11 07:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by J*Mo 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋