Signs as ancient greek women
Aries: Hecuba - the queen of Troy, wife of King Priam. Mother of 19 children, among which Hector and Paris. She tried stopping Hector from fighting with Achilles.
Taurus: Iphigenia - Princess of Argos. Daughter of Clytemnestre and Agamemnom. After her father offended the goddess Artemis he was ordered to sacrifice Iphigenia in order to enable safe passage of his ships to Troy. She was saved by Artemis in the last moment and she took her away.
Gemini: Orithyia - an Athenian princess, daughter of Erechteus and Praxithea. She was abducted by Boreas, god of the north wind, and made the goddess of cold, gusty mountain winds.
Cancer: Penelope: Queen of Ithaca, wife of Odysseus. She remained faithful to her husband for 20 years by tricking her 108 suitors. She promised to marry a suitor after she finishes weaving a burial shroud for her father in law. But, every night, she would undone a part of the shroud and then have to start again in the morning.
Leo: Andromache - Princess of Cilician Thebe. The wife of Hector. After his death she was captured as a Concubine by Neoptolemus, who killed her son. Helenus rescued her and married her. She then became the queen of Epirus.
Virgo: Andromeda - Princess of Aethiopia. Chained to a rock as a sacrifice to Poseidon after her family commited hubris. Perseus saved her and married her. She followed him in all his journeys and after her death she became a constellation.
Libra: Hypermnestra - the daughter od Danaus. She and hers 49 sisters were wed off to Aegyptus 50 sons. Their father commanded them to kill their husbands on the wedding night. She was the only one that didn’t carry out the order. She, with her husband Lynceus, started the Danaid dynasty.
Scorpio: Hermione - daughter of Helen and Menelaus. Her hand was given to Orestes as wife, but during the Trojan war her father promised her to Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
Sagittarius: Alcestis - daughter of king Pelias. Admetus won her hand in marriage when he beat the challenge her father set. When fates were supposed to take her husband she volunteered to die instead of him.
Capricorn: Cyrene - the daughter of King Hypseus of the Lapiths. One of the best hunters in the land. Defended father’s sheep against a lion by wrestling with him. This caught Apollo’s attention so he took her in as his lover.
Aquarius: Antigone - Princess of Thebe, daughter of Oedipus. After king Creon denied burial for her brother Polynices she carried it out herself. King Creon punished her for that and sent her to prison where she hanged herself.
Pisces: Ariadne - Princess of Crete. Daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. Helped Theseus in his fight against Minotaur by giving him a sword and a ball of thread that will guide him through the Maze. He brought her with him when he escaped but left her at Naxos since she was predestined to Dionysus as a wife.
