Reading about the different versions of Hippolyta in mythology and she really is treated as a disposable character in those myths. She admires Hercules only to be mistakenly killed by him. Or she is kidnapped by either him or Theseus. Or she dies accidentally thanks to Penthiselia. At least the latter got a better death during the Trojan War.
I wonder if this was part of the reason why Marston and co. chose Hippolyta to be Diana's mother and had her be more central to the WW myths.
Well you have to figure that those myths were written by men of the era, and Greece wasn't a bastion of gender equality.
The Amazons are the enemy, the "other" in Greek myths. And that Marston turns that on it's head is wonderful (pun not intended...lol)