Talk:Penthesilea/@comment-77.49.223.86-20170630222305

For those wondering what's up with her being crazy. I've seen others explain it too, but I will try to condense it. Also correct some things.

Penthesilea is one of the Amazons. Sister of Hippolyta from Herakles' Labours. Although it is said she accidentally killed Hippolyta and thus went to try to fight and appease the gods, Hippolyta always dies to Herakles in every version so....sources clash there.

She fights Achilles and loses bad. Ends up getting killed. However Achilles then fills strong remorse, seeing how beautiful and young he is, and mourns for her (no he does not have sex with her dead body, that is in a 20th century poem by Robert Graves). Thersites, Diomedes' cousin, mocks him for weeping for an enemy so Achilles punches him. Thersites dies of course because Achilles is too OP. Btw his voice actor in Apocrypha is Saitama. One Punch Rider Confirmed.

Then Diomedes gets mad, calls Achilles a brat and gives Penthesilea's body the Hector treatment before dumping her in a river. Thankfully she is retrieved by either Troy or Achilles and gets buried properly.

Now as for why she hates Greek Heroes and so on? I find the idea that 'she got killed by one' to be base and stupid. My belief? There were 4 sisters. Hippolyta gets killed by Herakles. Penthesilea gets killed by Achilles. One of the other two (sources vary) leaves to become Theseus' wife and then dies in the field of battle. The last one either lives or dies, again sources vary. Ergo her family was cut apart and destroyed by Greek Heroes, hence her hatred of them. Such is my hypothesis. We'll see.