This figure embodies charity by avenging the heroic addressee of The Epistle of Othea. Pyrrhus cuts off this figure’s arm in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s (“bun-WAH duh sant-MOR’s”) Romance and Guido delle Colonne’s (“GWEE-doh DEL-lay ko-LOAN-nay’s”) History. This figure foolishly trusts Athena’s false dream, in which Ares promises glory, and begins a leopardlike aristeia that rouses Tisiphone’s followers to arms until Theano stops them. This figure abruptly arrives at the funeral of the “breaker of horses” in the alleged incipit of the Aethiopis. After committing sororicide while hunting in Book 1 of Quintus’s Posthomerica, this foreign leader of 12 warriors replaces Hector as Troy’s champion. A Kleist tragedy reverses this bellatrix’s defeat by Achilles, whom Thersites mocks for lusting after her corpse. For 10 points, Vergil likely modeled Camilla on what sister of Hippolyta and queen of the Amazons? ■END■
ANSWER: Penthesilea [or Penthesíleia; or Pantasselle] (The first two lines refer to Christine de Pizan’s Epistle of Othea to Hector, Benoît’s Roman de Troie, and Guido’s Historia destructionis Troiae.)
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