Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons

Hippolyta is thirteen and already has one brother when her mother, queen of the all-female Amazon tribe, gives birth to Podarces. Amazon law decrees that all second sons must be sacrificed to the goddess Artemis, but Otrere can’t bring herself to give up her child. She entrusts Hippolyta with the task of delivering the baby to his father, King Laomedon of Troy. Author’s note.