Lampedo

Lampedo
Lampedo de "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum"

Lampedo es el nombre de una reina amazona mencionada en la historiografía romana. Gobernó con su hermana Marpesia. Las hermanas se denominaban a si mismas hijas de Marte para amendrontar los enemigos y hecerles ver que eran terribles guerreras.[1]

El nombre se cree que tenia gran importancia en las tradicionales procesiones de la Luna Nueva en homenaje a Artemisa, diosa de la fertilidad y la caza.[2]

Referencias

  1. ↑ Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001, p. 25; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0-674-01130-9
  2. ↑ Lampedo

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