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The amazons were exiled to Parad<strong>is</strong>e Island and to rebuild their city of Themyscira as pun<strong>is</strong>hment by<br />

the gods; guarding the gate of the underworld was their penance for flying off the handle and slaughtering<br />

<strong>Hercules</strong>' army. They were to be given immortality so that they would forever safeguard a doorway to the<br />

underworld called Doom's Doorway.<br />

One of the objections of <strong>Hercules</strong> being Diana’s father <strong>is</strong> the idea of<br />

her being conceived thru the violent act of a rape. The fact that Antiope<br />

fell in love with Theseus suggest that she was not raped but consented<br />

to having sex with Theseus and the anger she felt was more out of the<br />

feeling of scorn than an act of vengeance. In the story she not only<br />

marries Theseus but bares h<strong>is</strong> child. Which implies she was angry at<br />

<strong>Hercules</strong> for raping her s<strong>is</strong>ter Hippolyta? But Hippolyta in the story <strong>is</strong> all<br />

for love, peace and forgiveness which implies she had sex with <strong>Hercules</strong><br />

willingly because she sought to sire a female child before she was<br />

drugged and supposedly raped. Plus when you consider the fact in the<br />

story that the Amazons were only enslaved for what two days, three at

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