Thalestris
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|An 18th-century Rococo painting of The Amazon Queen Thalestris in the Camp of Alexander the Great, by [[Johann Georg Platzer]] According to the mythological Greek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris (; ) of the Amazons brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. According to the legend, she stayed with the Macedonian king for 13 days and nights in the hope that the great warrior would father a daughter by her.
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thumb|upright=1.3|An 18th-century Rococo painting of The Amazon Queen Thalestris in the Camp of Alexander the Great, by [[Johann Georg Platzer]] According to the mythological Greek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris (; ) of the Amazons brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he. According to the legend, she stayed with the Macedonian king for 13 days and nights in the hope that the great warrior would father a daughter by her.
==Sources== Several of Alexander's biographers dispute the claim, including Plutarch, a highly regarded secondary source. He mentions fourteen authors, some of whom believed the story (Onesicritus, Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos).
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