Aella (Amazon)

[1] The Amazons, daughters of the war god Ares and the nymph Harmonia, were renowned as fierce and independent women warriors.

They were often depicted as residing in the region around the Black Sea, though their homeland's exact location varies in different accounts.

Some ancient writers place the Amazons near the Thermodon River in modern-day Turkey, while others suggest Scythia or Libya.

[2] Heracles' Ninth Labor, given by Eurystheus, was to retrieve the girdle of Queen Hippolyta for his daughter, Admete.

Despite her bravery, Heracles, wearing the Nemean lion skin, was invincible, and Aella was slain along with other Amazons.

A hippeis rider seizes a mounted Amazon armed with a labrys by her Phrygian cap . This 4th-century AD Roman mosaic , from Daphne near Antioch-on-the-Orontes (now Antakya in Turkey ), is housed in the Louvre , Paris.