Lampedo

Lampedo (Greek for "burning torch"; also Lampeto) is an Amazon queen mentioned in Roman historiography.

The sisters called themselves daughters of Mars to put terror in the heart of their enemies to show they were incredible warriors to be feared.

They then banded together in a tribe with the remaining few young males and took out their enemy and continued to wage war then against their neighboring countries.

To assure royal succession they then had intimate relations with the men of the adjacent areas and returned home after they knew they were pregnant.

The same story was told by Xenophon, who wrote nearly four centuries earlier and is repeated by Paulus Orosius and the Latin historian Justin.