These people’s queen, Hippolyta, owned a zoster that was the subject of Heracles’s ninth labor. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these female warriors who legendarily banned men from their home of Themiscyra.
ANSWER: Amazons
[10m] After accidentally killing Hippolyta while hunting these animals, Penthesilea joins the Trojan War to die. After accidentally seeing a goddess bathing, Actaeon is turned into one of these animals and eaten by his own dogs.
ANSWER: deer [accept stags]
[10h] Heracles and his men are attacked at one of these locations after Hera disguises herself as an Amazon and spreads false rumors of his plans to kill Hippolyta. Heracles breaks the horn off a god of one of these locations while wrestling for the hand of Deianira.
ANSWER: rivers [accept Achelous River; accept Terme River or Thermodon River; prompt on Achelous or Terme or Thermodon; prompt on bodies of water; prompt on ships or boats by asking “in what larger location?”]
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