Chelidonis

Chelidonis: Chelidonis (Greek: Χελιδονίς) was a Spartan princess who, according to fantasy novelist Jessica Salmonson acted as a captain of a group of female warriors during a 280 BC siege of Sparta. Solmonson believes she fought with a rope tied around her neck so that she wouldn't be taken alive.^[1]

She was the wife of Cleonymus, but was unfaithful to him with Acrotatus.

According to the text of The Parallel Lives/The Life of Pyrrhus^[2] by Plutarch, Cleonymus’ wife Chelidonis (Chilonis) was neither a captain nor a warrior during the siege of Sparta. In the battle she withdrew from the rest, and kept a halter about her neck, that she might not come into the power of Cleonymus if the city were taken.

References

Smith, William "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities edited",Little, Brown Co, 1870

Notes

^ Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1991). The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House. p. 55. ISBN 1-55778-420-5.

^ Parallel Lives

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