Gargarencia was a village on a riverbank that was populated solely by men. All of the women left to join Queen Hippolyta's Amazon tribe. For an unknown amount of time the Amazons lived apart from their men, knowing them to have no respect for women and only visiting them once a year to keep their tribes populated, although it is claimed by Hippolyta that many of their male children are abandoned in the wild, as they have no use for them in their tribe.
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Notable Gargarencians[]
- Pithus: Fathered a son named Franco with the Amazon Megara
- Franco: Son of Pithus and Megara
- Hector: Fathered a daughter with the Amazon Chilla
- Tiber:
- Ilus
- Lethan
- Kurion
- Many other men and boys
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In Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, (Greek: Γαργαρείς Gargareis) were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. The Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and gave the males to the Gargareans.
The ancient Greek geographer Strabo placed the Gargareans on the northern foothills of the Caucasus. Several scholars identify them with the Galgaï. According to E. Krupnov, the accuracy of the localization of Strabo's Gargareans in Galga-chuv (Ingushetia) is confirmed by archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic data. Gaius Plinius Secundus likewise localizes the Gargareans north of the Caucasus Mountains, but calls them Gegar.