• Myrina, a queen of the Amazons
  Amazons
  The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...
  
  . According to Diodorus Siculus
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  , she led a military expedition in Libya
  Libya
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   and won a victory over the people known as the Atlantians, but was less successful fighting the Gorgons (who are described by Diodorus as a warlike nation residing in close proximity to the Atlantians). During the same campaign, she struck a treaty of peace with Horus
  Horus
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  , ruler of Egypt
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  , conquered several peoples, including the Arabians, the Tauri
  Tauri
  The Tauri , also Scythotauri, Tauri Scythae, Tauroscythae were a people settling on the southern coast of the Crimea peninsula, inhabiting the Crimean Mountains and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the Black Sea...
  
   and the Cilicia
  Cilicia
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  ns (but granted freedom to those of the latter who gave in to her of their own will). She also took possession of several islands, including Lesbos, and was the first to land on the previously uninhabited island which she named Samothrace
  Samothrace
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  . The cities of Myrina (in Lemnos
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  ), Mytilene
  Mytilene
  Mytilene is a town and a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island of Lesbos. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is built on the...
  
  , Cyme (Aeolis)
  Cyme (Aeolis)
  Cyme was an Aeol city in Aeolis close to the kingdom of Lydia. The Aeolians regarded Cyme as the largest and most important of their twelve cities, which were located on the coastline of Asia Minor...
  
  , Pitane (Aeolis)
  Pitane (Aeolis)
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   and Priene
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   were believed to have been founded by her and named after herself, her sister Mytilene and the commanders in her army, Cyme, Pitane and Priene, respectively. Myrina's army was eventually defeated by Mopsus the Thracia
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  n and Sipylus the Scythia
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  n; she, as well as many of her fellow Amazons, fell in the final battle.

• Myrina, daughter of Cretheus
  Cretheus
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   and wife of Thoas
  Thoas (Tauri king)
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  , another possible eponym
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   for the city of Myrina on Lemnos.

• Myrina, a person whose tomb in Troad is mentioned in the Iliad
  Iliad
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  , see Batea (mythology)
  Batea (mythology)
  In Greek mythology, the name Batea refers to the following individuals:* The daughter or the aunt of King Teucer. Her father was the ruler of a tribe known as the Teucrians . The Teucrians inhabited the area of northwest Asia Minor later called the Troad , and the term is sometimes used as...
  
  . Was identified with Myrina the Amazon.

Sources

• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XVI, Halbband 31, Molatzes-Myssi (1933), s. 1095-1097 (in German)