Hercules Not Completed Task

Hercules was set the task to go to the Amazons he had to bring the girdle of the heart of the amazons. The Amazon was full of indigenous people, women and men that were very warlike. Men ruled and let the women take control of the children and the harvest, but when it came to the girdle, then they would be very protective. They would do anything to me able to keep it safe with them. The women of the Amazon took their land, their forest as part of their own, and they deeply believe in the Curupira, the spirit of the forest that protected it from all kinds of thread. Juno decided to transform into one of the Amazonian women to take the girdle, but the Curupira was aware that she was not an Amazonian women so when Juno was walking towards the girdle suddenly she fell in a hole full of ants and was eaten by them, making it impossible for Hercules to complete his task.

Hippolyta?

If the play was inspired in the real Amazons I think that Hippolyta would not be the noble person and wealthy that is represented in the play. On the other hand, it would be kind of poor, in a sense that in the amazons there is not really a lot of money, for anyone. The indigenous people were everything but noble, they are adventurous and take care of the children of the house. In the Trojan Women, Hippolyta is going to marry the man she wanted to, in the amazons we were able to visit a group of Indians, the Marubos, and they told us that women were set to marry the person that their father wanted them to, not anyone they wanted to.

There was no Queen of The Amazons, not one guide or native talked to us about any queen. Since the Amazons was thought to be the land of women, maybe that’s why the play is thought for Hippolyta as a character.