Usually means: Queen of the Amazons, warrior.
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  1. Penthesilea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Penthesilea: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Penthesilea: Wordnik
  4. Penthesilea (Kleist), Penthesilea (disambiguation), Penthesilea (opera), Penthesilea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Penthesilea, Penthesilea: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Penthesilea)

noun:  an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe.
noun:  a one-act opera by Othmar Schoeck, to a German-language libretto by the composer, after the work of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist.
noun:  an 1808 tragedy by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist about the mythological Amazon queen, Penthesilea, described as an exploration of sexual frenzy.
noun:  an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology.
noun:  a genus of moths in the family Pyralidae.


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