Lampito (Champion)

Lampito, originally from Sparta, now fights for New Colchis.

Origin: Natural
Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers: Martial Arts
Secondary Powers: Shields
Other Powers: Flight, Fitness

Lampito, born in Sparta, moved to New Colchis after the Peloponnesian War. She belongs to Themiscyra.

Biography

Since leaving Sparta, where she was instrumental in ending the war, she has been sent as an envoy to Paragon City, where she offers Paragon women instruction in the ancient martial art of pankration.

Battlecry

• Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς

("With it, or on it.")

Inspiration

Lampito originated in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes:

Greek

Λυσιστράτη

ὦ φιλτάτη Λάκαινα χαῖρε Λαμπιτοῖ.
οἷον τὸ κάλλος γλυκυτάτη σου φαίνεται.
ὡς δ᾽ εὐχροεῖς, ὡς δὲ σφριγᾷ τὸ σῶμά σου.
κἂν ταῦρον ἄγχοις.

Λαμπιτῶ

μάλα γ᾽ οἰῶ ναὶ τὼ σιώ·
γυμνάδδομαι γὰρ καὶ ποτὶ πυγὰν ἅλλομαι.

Καλονίκη

ὡς δὴ καλὸν τὸ χρῆμα τιτθίων ἔχεις.

Λαμπιτῶ

περ ἱερεῖόν τοί μ᾽ ὑποψαλάσσετε.

English

LYSISTRATA Yes, that is best.... Ah! here comes Lampito. (LAMPITO, a husky Spartan damsel, enters with three others, two from Boeotia and one from Corinth.) Good day, Lampito, dear friend from Lacedaemon. How well and handsome you look! what a rosy complexion! and how strong you seem; why, you could strangle a bull surely!

LAMPITO Yes, indeed, I really think I could. It's because I do gymnastics and practise the bottom-kicking dance.

CLEONICE (opening LAMPITO'S robe and baring her bosom) And what superb breasts!

LAMPITO La! you are feeling me as if I were a beast for sacrifice.