Aegea
Aegea is a
Amazon women warriors that traveled from Libya to Asia Minor to fight at Troy,[1] and that she perished at sea with her army.[2]
Modern Italian has the adjective Egea ("Aegean"), but
Classical Latin had none. Modern botanical Latin sometimes uses the specific epithet
aegea to mean "of the Aegean".
References
- ^ Clayton (1879). Female warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. Tinsley Bros.
- ^ Hays, Mary (1803). Female Biography; or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of All Ages and Countries. London: R. Phillips. pp. 66.
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