Vem är exakt Hippolyta?

Som med många saker i serietidningar ändras ursprungshistorier hela tiden. Hon har ursprungligen varit skulpturerad i lera av Hippolyta, men gav livet på olika sätt eller grekiska gudar över åren. Wonder Woman är inget undantag för att hennes historia förändrats under de +75 år som hon existerade.

Per Wikipedia, i Gyllene ålderens ursprung :

Initially, Wonder Woman was an Amazon champion who wins the right to return Steve Trevor – a United States intelligence officer whose plane had crashed on the Amazons' isolated island homeland – to "Man's World" and to fight crime and the evil of the Nazis.

During this period, Wonder Woman joined the Justice Society of America as the team's secretary.

Hur mycket 1940-talet, va? Får inte mycket bättre i hennes Silver Age-anpassning :

The new origin story increased the character's Hellenic and mythological roots: receiving the blessing of each deity in her crib, Diana is destined to become "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, as strong as Hercules, and as swift as Hermes."

At the end of the 1960s, under the guidance of Mike Sekowsky, Wonder Woman surrendered her powers in order to remain in Man's World rather than accompany her fellow Amazons to another dimension. Wonder Woman begins using the alias Diana Prince and opens a mod boutique. She acquires a Chinese mentor named I Ching, who teaches Diana martial arts and weapons skills. Using her fighting skill instead of her powers, Diana engaged in adventures that encompassed a variety of genres, from espionage to mythology. This phase of her story was directly influenced by the British spy thriller The Avengers and Diana Rigg's portrayal of Emma Peel.

Hon får gå tillbaka till några av hennes rötter i Bronze Age version :

With a new decade arriving, DC president Jenette Kahn ordered a revamp in Wonder Woman's appearance. Artist Milton Glaser, who also designed the "bullet" logo adopted by DC in 1977, created a stylized "WW" emblem that evoked and replaced the eagle in her bodice, and debuted in 1982. The emblem in turn was incorporated by studio letterer Todd Klein onto the monthly title's logo, which lasted for a year and a half before being replaced by a version from Glaser's studio. With sales of the title continuing to decline in 1985 (despite an unpublished revamp that was solicited), the series was canceled and ended in issue #329 (February 1986) written by Gerry Conway, depicting Steve Trevor's marriage to Wonder Woman.

The Crisis on Infinite Earths cross-over of 1986 was designed and written with the purpose of streamlining most of DC's characters into one more-focused continuity and reinventing them for a new era, thus Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor were declared to come from the Earth-Two dimension, and along with all of their exploits, were erased from history, so that a new Wonder Woman character, story and timeline could take priority.

Och sedan kommer vi till flera Modern Age-anpassningar , som du kan läsa om i detalj på den angivna Wikipedia länk eftersom det är lite för långt för detta format, men att sammanfatta:

• Hon har varit en ambassadör från Themiscira som är beredd att föra fred till människans värld.
• Paradise Island förstördes och Amazons utspridda, med Diana som föräldralös i New York
• Till och med avlägsna ljussiffrorna genom att göra henne till en verklig demi-gudinna som Hippolyta och Zeus avkommor.

Hennes ursprung har genomgått en ännu mer komplicerad retcon med DCs Rebirth försök till en universell retcon.

Som sådan skulle jag inte ta någonting du läser om de faktiska grekiska legenderna som någonting som en författare till Wonder Woman i någon inkarnation som fastnat, helt eller delvis. karaktärer, även de som är baserade på verklig myt, är fortfarande på författarens (föreställningarnas) infall att spela med, expandera eller ens göra av med helt.