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According to Greek mythology, Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazons - who were women warriors. She mainly shows up in the mythology in relation to Hercules/Heracles getting her girdle (a gift from her father, the God Ares) as the ninth of his 12 labors and in a variety of myths that had her married to Theseus.

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