Perhaps as a reflection of their purported savagery and barbaric ways, the Amazons were portrayed in ancient Greek myths as devout followers and direct descendants of the Olympian Ares. The Argonautica claims that they were the progeny of the god of war and the nymph Harmonia, while in other tales, the dark deity sired some of their mightiest queens. It was Ares himself who gave his daughter Hippolyta her fabled magic girdle, while Penthesilea, a tragic figure of the Trojan War, was said to have been born from the union of Ares and the Amazon queen Otrera.