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Rhus, where the building in the shape of a lozenge stands. It is said, likewise, that others of them were slain near Chaeronea, and buried near the little rivulet, formerly called Thermodon, but now Haemon, of which an account is given in the life of Demosthenes. It appears further that the passage of the Amazons through Thessaly was not without opposition, for there are yet shown many tombs of them near Scotussa and Cynoscephalae. This is as much as is worth telling concerning the Amazons. For the account which the author of the poem called the Theseid gives of this rising of the Amazons, how A.ntiope, to revenge herself upon Theseus for refusing her and marrying Phaedra, came down upon the city with her train of Amazons, whom Hercules slew, is mani- festly nothing else but fable and invention. It is true, indeed, that Theseus married Phaedra, but that was after the death of Antiope, by whom he had a son called Hip- polytus, or, as Pindar writes, Demophon. The calamities which befell Phaedra and this son, since none of the histo- rians have contradicted the tragic poets that have written of them, we must suppose happened as represented uni- formly by them. There are also other traditions of the marriages of Theseus, neither honorable in their occasions nor fortu- nate in their events, which yet were never represented in the Greek plays. For he is said to have carried off Anaxo, a Troezenian, and, having slain Sinnis and Cercyon, to have ravished their daughters; to have married Periboea, the mother of Ajax, and then Pherebcea, and then lope, the daughter of Iphicles. And further, he is accused of desert- ing Ariadne (as is before related), being in love with Mgle the daughter of Panopeus, neither justly nor honorably; and lastly, of the rape of Helen, which filled all Attica with war and blood, and was in the end the occasion of

his banishment and death, as will presently be related.