Is Wonder Woman a Greek goddess or an Amazon?

The Amazons of Greek Myth (Hippolyta, Antiope, Penthesilea, Melanippe and Hiera) are technically demi-gods, daughters of Ares and his half-sister, Otrera, daughter of Harmonia, a daughter of Aphrodite. The expanded female members of the kingdom would have been mortal women taken from neighboring tribes. read more

Wonder Woman is an Amazon, who was raise by Hippolyta, her mothe, and is technically a demigoddess and the princess of the Amazons. So she is an Amazon, not a goddess (well not technically at least). read more

Byrne tries to subvert this new origin by introducing an unnecessary character, Magala, the Amazon mystic who looks like a cave woman, suggesting that the cave woman we saw in George Perez's first issue of Wonder Woman was actually Magala, not Hippolyta. read more

Wonder Woman's history is undeniably intertwined with the stories of Greek myth, but Wonder Woman herself is not based on a Greek Goddess. She was created to be a champion of feminism in the 20th century, and she's continuing that fight well into the 21st. read more