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12. Pindar, Pythian Ode 12 21.
13. Homer, Iliad 11 37.
14. Prometheus Bound 798–9.
15. https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P23.1B.html.
16. Ovid, Metamorphoses 5 250.
17. Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 63.
18. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.36–42.
19. Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 222.
20. Ibid 224.
21. Ibid 227.
22. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254523.
23. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461872&partId=1.
24. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.3.
25. Gantz, p. 489.
26. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.45–6.
27. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4 617–20.
28. Pindar, Pythian Ode 12 8.
29. Homer, Iliad 5 114.
30. Ovid, Metamorphoses 11 85–193.
31. Ibid 11 125–6.
32. Wright, vol. 2, p. 61.
33. Ovid, Metamorphoses 4 741.
34. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/154107.
35. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.46
36. http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/museo-pio-clementino/Cortile-Ottagono/perseo-trionfante.html.
37. https://www.metmuseum.org/en/art/collection/search/204758.
38. https://www.reddit.com/r/justlegbeardthings/comments/9vcppc/be_thankful_we_only_want_equality_and_not_payback/.
39. Orange is the New Black, Season 3, episode 12, ‘Don’t Make Me Come Back There.’
40. Book of Judith, Ch 12–13.
41. Pindar, Pythian Ode 10, 47–8.
42. Ovid, Metamorphoses 5 209.
43. Book of Judith, Ch 16, v 26.
44. https://www.gq.com/story/see-rihanna-as-a-topless-medusa-on-the-cover-of-british-gq?fbclid=IwAR1iGwZPDG99bxRtckveo8Anb0oTBm_C_RdKS-75inxprJ_4Gw-D3v5POS0.
45. https://thelegomovie.fandom.com/wiki/Medusa.
46. Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.21.5.
47. medousa is the feminine form of medōn, Liddell and Scott.
48. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.3.
THE AMAZONS
1. Mayor, A. (2014), The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 85.
2. Ibid p. 31.
3. Ibid pp. 191, 280.
4. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1.40.
5. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.778.
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.9.
7. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 1.
8. Euripides, Herakles Mainomenos 415; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.9; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.777; Diodorus, Bibliotheca Historica 4.16; Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.10.9.
9. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1864-1007-253.
10. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247964.
11. Diodorus, Bibliotheca Historica 3.53.4.
12. Pliny, Natural History 7.57.
13. Homer, Iliad 3 189.
14. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250814.
15. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.9.
16. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/153654.
17. Mayor, p. 219.
18. Plutarch, Life of Theseus 26ff.
19. Ibid 29.
20. Aeschylus, Eumenides 685.
21. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.2.1.
22. Herodotus, Histories 9.27.4.
23. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.15.2.
24. Aethiopis frag 1 (Loeb, Greek Epic Fragments), p. 114.
25. Homer, Iliad 24 56ff.
26. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 5.1.
27. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.18ff.
28. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 1.5.
29. Sophocles, Ajax.
30. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.96.
31. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3.
32. Ibid 1.153.
33. Ibid 1.159.
34. Ibid 1.216.
35. Ibid 1.227.
36. Ibid 1.238.
37. Ibid 1.315.
38. Alden, M. (2005), ‘Lions in Paradise’ in Classical Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 2, pp.335–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4493342?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
39. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.406.
40. Ibid 1.629.
41. Ibid 1.664.
42. Ibid 1.726.
43. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1836-0224-127.
44. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1836-0224-128.
45. Mayor, p. 300.
46. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 1.800.
47. https://www.poeticous.com/robert-graves/penthesileia.
CLYTEMNESTRA
1. Antiphon 1, 17
2. Macintosh, F. et al. (2005), Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 59.
3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 136.
4. Ibid 155.
5. Ibid 258.
6. Ibid 960.
7. Ibid 950.
8. Ibid 1156.
9. Ibid 1190.
10. Ibid 1214.
11. Ibid 1252.
12. Ibid 1360–1.
13. Ibid 1394.
14. https://collections.mfa.org/objects/153661.
15. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1431–3.
16. Ibid 1526.
17. Ibid 1644.
18. https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/25.%20Archaeological%20Artifacts/36020.
19. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2 399–408.
20. Seneca, Agamemnon 118.