A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Penthesilea

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4120950A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Penthesilea

PENTHESILEA,

Queen of the Amazons, succeeded Osythia. She fought bravely at the siege of Troy, and was killed by Achilles, B. C. 1187. Pliny says she invented the battle-axe. She must have been a real Amazon.