Once freed, however, the Amazons proceed to slaughter most of their captors. When they agree to her terms, Athena frees the Amazons from their chains. ![]() Athena agrees to aid the Amazons, but only if they do not go against their purpose of creation by seeking revenge. ![]() Hippolyta pleads with the goddesses for help. Heracles subdues and ravages Hippolyta, and his forces succeed in ransacking Themyscira and making the Amazons their slaves. Ares, the God of War and a chief opponent of the Amazons, manipulates his half brother Heracles to gather forces and attack Themyscira. They have founded the city-state of Themyscira in ancient Greece – Modern day Turkey, which is ruled by sisters Hippolyta and Antiope. They are tasked to teach the merits of virtue, love, and equality to the men of "Patriarch’s World". Shaped from clay over 3,000 years previous and given new lives by five Olympian goddesses - Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hestia, and Aphrodite - the Amazons are granted immortality, great physical strength, highly acute senses, beauty, wisdom, and love for one another. The 1987 relaunch of the Wonder Woman series establishes that the Amazons are the reincarnated souls of women slain throughout pre-history by men. Upon the conclusion of this limited series, most characters in the DC Comics universe underwent some revamp or retcon in their storyline history, and Wonder Woman was one of several characters whose entire continuity was rebooted. This basic back-story remains intact throughout the Golden Age and Silver Age of Comic Books, until the 1985–1986 " Crisis on Infinite Earths" storyline. Originally, there were three generations of Amazons living on the island, with Princess Diana being from the second. And the 2009 animated movie version had set it in the Aegean Sea. Then in the 1970s television incarnation (as portrayed by Lynda Carter), Paradise Island's location was set in the Bermuda Triangle. It was originally implied, but not yet fully confirmed, that Paradise Island was located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. It was established that all Amazons are adept at a discipline called "bullets and bracelets" in which they can deflect bullets fired at them using the chain bands on their wrists. Diana later competes against other Amazons to become Wonder Woman, the emissary from Paradise Island who will accompany Steve back to "Man's World" and aid in the fight against the Axis powers. When United States Army intelligence officer Steve Trevor's plane crashes there during World War II, he is nursed back to health just outside of the capital city by Princess Diana, daughter of the island's Queen Hippolyta. With the island blessed by the Olympian Gods, no man was allowed to physically set foot on it. The Amazons were given a break from the hostilities and temptations of Man's World, and so were decreed to start a new life-improving themselves by sequestering themselves to this island away from ancient Greece, after being enslaved by Hercules. When Wonder Woman's homeland is first introduced in 1941, it is referred to as Paradise Island, a secret and hidden island on Earth inhabited by the Amazons of myth. Publication history Pre-Crisis (1941–1987) Themiscyra made its cinematic debut in the 2017 films Wonder Woman and Justice League, and appeared in the 2020 sequel Wonder Woman 1984, set in the DC Extended Universe. Both the island and city are named after the mythological city of Themiscyra, the capital of the Amazons in Greek mythology. ![]() The name for the entire archipelago became "The Paradise Islands", when the city was renamed "Themyscira" with the character's February 1987 relaunch in Wonder Woman (vol. Themyscira is the theocracy and capital city that serves as the Amazonians' government and place of origin for Wonder Woman. ![]() Themyscira's location is undisclosed as a security measure, the island can shift its location over both land and time, remains undetectable from the perspective of any outside observer, and as soon as anyone leaves the island, they forget its location. Men are banned from Themyscira under penalty of death. Themyscira is a segregated nation of women governed by Aphrodite's Law, which declared that the Amazons would be immortal as long as no man sets foot on their island. Previously known as Paradise Island and the Amazon Isles, it first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). Themyscira ( / ˌ θ ɛ m ɪ ˈ s k ɪr ə/) is a fictional unitary sovereign city-state and archipelagic island nation appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. A rebuilt and relocated Themyscira as seen in Wonder Woman (vol.
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