History ComicBook / WonderWomanHistoriaTheAmazons

* DueToTheDead: After Heracles falls in battle against literally ''all'' of the Amazons at once, they collectively kneel and say a prayer for his soul, acknowledging that he fought hard and died well.

* JerkassGods: Most of the male Olympians give off this but Zeus, unsurprisingly, is the standout example.

* TattooAsCharacterType: Poseidon, the lord of the oceans and god of the sea, is covered with tattoos representing all sorts of sea creatures and sea monsters.

Presented as a "Creator/{{Homer}}ic" epic. The series looks to tell the the true history of Queen Hippolyta and the Amazons, before ComicBook/SteveTrevor washed up ashore on Themyscira.

** On an individual level, for Hippolyta [[spoiler: there's that she was able to save all the Amazons (except Tarpeia) in her barter with Olympus but ends up an outcast on the island by the rest of the Amazons for getting them imprisoned. Nearly drowning herself out of despair but stopping as she hears the cries of a baby girl on the shores ]]

* {{Reincarnation}}: Like in George Perez's run, the Amazons are created from the souls of women who died to male violence.

** [[spoiler: When Dian is created from clay, as the Goddesses look down upon her and Hippolyta stars decorate the scene. Resembling the ones on Wonder Woman's costume]].

** [[spoiler: When Dian is created from clay, as the Goddesses look down upon her and Hippolyta stars decorate the scene. Resembling the ones on Wonder Woman's costume.

* CurbStompBattle: The battle between the Amazons and the slavers who were harassing Hippolyta, is an unsurprisingly short one.

* WidowWoman: Hippolyta is stated to be a widow in her introductory scene.

* AdaptationalCurves: Aphrodite is portrayed as more heavyset and curvaceous than in previous Wonder Woman works, evoking the the Prehistoric Venuses. This, coupled with her being surrounded by hordes of baby-like cupids, also seem to put an emphasis on how this version of Aphrodite embodies all the kinds of love, including motherly.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The entire series is one for the Amazons in general, and Hippolyta specifically. Who have mainly been supporting and background characters in Wonder Woman material for the most part.

* BigHeroicRun: [[spoiler: After realizing she can't just leave the infant girl to die, Hippolyta dashes back to the river to find and when she can't, she keeps running for what the narration says are months on end. All in a vein hope of being able to rescue the child]].

** Hippolyta is introduced wearing a purple sash on her otherwise plain white robe. [[spoiler: After her BigHeroicRun that goes on for months, it's the only form of clothing she has left]]. Purple being Hippolyta' signature color as Queen of the Amazons in her other continuities.

** In the second issue, Hippolyta ends up founding her own seventh tribe of, mortal, women who have been saved or rescued by the Amazons. They worship all the above female deities as their patrons.

** One of the slavers that's accosting Hippolyta where's an ornate mask in the design of Apollo.

* DarkerAndEdgier: As with most books that fall under the Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint, this is more a openly graphic take on the backstory of the Amazons in comparison to the Perez origin it takes it's cues from, which was itself a darker take on the original Marston 40s origin.

* ShownTheirWork: While some liberties were taken with the original myths, for aesthetic reasons and to fit with the modern Wonder Woman world, overall these depictions and incarnations of the Greek gods, while highly unusual, are still well-searched. Poseidon was never depicted as a winged centaur in mythology, but he is the patron god of horses and the father of Pegasus. The idea of Hera having a thousand eyes that are ever-watching is actually a reference to the myth of Argus, a hundred-eyed giant that served her faithfully (and when he died she put his eyes on the peacock's feathers, the same associated with this Hera's thousands of eyes). And Demeter was indeed associated with snakes, who were perceived as creatures of ground and often showed up whenever there was a chthonic or earthly/agricultural element in Greek myths.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It's not a coincidence many of the Amazons targets are slavers.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: By the end of the first issue we are introduced to 30 named Amazons in addition to the 12 Olympians.

* IAmTheNoun: Zeus goes on a tirade deriding the Goddesses for demanding justice for the cruelties inflicted against females by males over the eons, stating Justice is his domain, declaring himself Justice, and that his will of men subjugating women as the natural order of the things he enforces.

* AdultFear: Losing a child as seen with Hippolyta's mad dash to try and save the one she was forced abandon in the wilderness [[note]] which isn't even hers [[/note]].

* BadassNormal: Given Hippolyta is not a part of the founding generation of Amazons and is a normal peasant woman, her actions in this series qualify her as this.

** One of the slavers that accosts Hippolyta is killed by an Amazon using a rope, a weapon Wonder Woman is quite famous for using. Hippolyta is later seen with said robe at her hip as she rides out.

** Antiope has facial painting in the form of a bird across her face that resembles the eagle-emblem that usually makes up WW's logo.

** The splash page depicting Hera's vision of the struggle of women in the future are references to real life historical events/figures; including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica British chieftan Boudica]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears the Trail of Tears]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft]]

* TheClan: Instead of the usual "one nation under one queen" approach, this comic reinvents the Amazons as a set of six tribes, each with their own queen and patron-goddess: Demeter's tribe led by Penthesilea, Hestia's tribe led by Io, Hecate's tribe led by Menalippe, Athena's tribe led by Hellene, Aphrodite's tribe led by Pythia and Artemis' tribe led by Antiope.

** One of the slavers that's accosting Hippolyta wheres an ornate mask in the design of Apollo.

* AdaptationalAbomination: Similar to ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'', this comic gives some of the gods more eldritch appearances. Hestia appears as a woman made of fire, Demeter basically looks like a walking bush with human head and Athena resembles a statue with no neck while her head consists of just a mask and helmet. Same for the gods, Zeus being a blue-skinned giant with lightning on his skin and ram horns on his head, while Poseidon is now a winged ichthyocentaur. Hecate probably takes the cake as she appears to be three women fused together with spikes jutting out all over her body.

* BadassNormal: Given Hippolyta is not a part of the founding generation of Amazons and seems to just be a normal peasant woman, her BigHeroicRun in the first issue certainty makes her this.

* GeniusBonus:

* {{Medusa}}: The Amazons from Athena's tribe bear an insignia of Medusa's face on their armor.

** Similarly, as Hippolyta starts out as not one of the original 30 Amazons, she and Antiope are not blood-related sisters as they are in other continuities.

* {{Dedication}}: The second issue has a dedication to Creator/GeorgePerez, who had been announced to have cancer in the time period in between the first and second issues;
->''Wonder Woman Historia is dedicated to the incredible George Perez,''
-> ''with gratitude for his essential contributions to the story of Diana.''\\
''With love from Kelly Sue [=DeConnick=], Phil Jimenez,''
->''Gene Ha, Nicola Scott, and the entire creative team.''

* HomeBase: The Amazons, and later the women they rescue, setup camp in the remains of a Greek city.