Harmothoe (mythology) explained

Harmothoe (Ancient Greek: Ἁρμοθόη) is the name of two personages in Greek mythology.

• Harmothoe, the "dark-eyed" Amazonian warrior.^[1] She was one of Penthesilea's twelve companions at Troy. Harmothoe was killed in the Trojan War by the hero Achilles, according to Quintus Smyrnaeus's Fall of Troy:^[2]
• Harmothoë, the wife of Pandareus and mother of his children. She followed him to Sicily after he tried to steal from Zeus where they both died.^[3]

References

• Eustathius of Thessalonica, Scholia Antiqua in Homeri Odysseam, ed. Angelo Mai, Libraria Myliana, 1821. Available at google books.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library

Notes and References

1. [Quintus Smyrnaeus]
2. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.532
3. [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]