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  AllRefer.com - Antiope (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
Fleeing to Sicyon to escape the wrath of her father, she was forced to abandon her infants on Mt. Cithaeron, where they were raised by shepherds.
Antiope was pursued and captured by her uncle Lycus, then king of Thebes, and his wife Dirce, who treated her with great cruelty.
Later the sons of Antiope revenged their mother; they dethroned Lycus and punished Dirce by tying her to the horns of a bull.
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 90 Antiope
Antiope was the daughter of Nycteus, king of Thebes, and Polyxo and mother of two children by Zeus.
Antiope is also mentioned as one of the queens of the Amazones and daughter of Ares.
Antiope (top) is a double asteroid, in contrast to Kleopatra (bottom) which is a single connected body.
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 Greek Mythology: ZEUS LOVES: ANTIOPE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
“I [Odysseus in Haides] saw Antiope, the daughter of Asopos; it was her pride to have slept in the arms of Zeus himself.
"Antiope, the daughter of Nykteos, had a name among the Greeks for beauty, and there was also a report that her father was not Nykteos but Asopos, the river that separates the territories of Thebes and Plataia.
They say that Antiope went mad, and when out of her wits roamed all over Greece; but Phokos, son of Ornytion, son of Sisyphos, chanced to meet her, cured her madness, and then married her.
www.theoi.com /Erotes/Zeus+Antiope.html   (1329 words)

  
 Articles - 90 Antiope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The 90th asteroid to be discovered, it is named after a character in Greek Mythology, called Antiope, though it is disputed as to which, there being more than one.
Antiope is classified as a member of the Themis family of asteroids.
In 2000, using adaptive optics at the Keck Telescope on Mauna Kea it was discovered that Antiope is in fact a double asteroid, consisting of two individual bodies (the "secondary" is designated S/2000 (90) 1), each about 110±16 km across, separated by a mere 170 kilometers, orbiting around a common center.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/90_Antiope   (222 words)

  
 Antiope (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antiope is the name of at least two characters in Greek mythology.
It is also the name of other things some of which have been named after the characters.
The Sleep of Antiope is a chef-d'oeuvre of Correggio in the Louvre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antiope_(disambiguation)   (130 words)

  
 Antiope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In Greek mythology, Antiope, an Amazon, was sister to Hippolyte, an Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle given to her by Ares, her father (and Antiope's).
Antiope is killed in the battle for the girdle or for Athens
Antiope was also the name of the daughter of King Nycteus of Thebes or the river-god Asopus.
www.theezine.net /a/antiope.html   (412 words)

  
 Antiope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
According to the myth she was kidnaped by Hercules from her homeland and brought to Athens where she was presented to King Theseus.
Antiope became his wife and she bore him a son named Hippolytus after her sister Hippolyte.
Antiope is now the name of my Amazons computer program.
www.cs.ualberta.ca /~tegos/research/amazons/antiope   (414 words)

  
 Antiope Associates Publications
Antiope Associates has expertise in all aspects of RFID, from circuit design and radio propagation to system level integration.
Antiope Associates' Gregory Wright was extensively involved with the design of the leading electronic pricing system on the market.
Antiope Associates' CTO has contributed to improvements in radio systems operating at submillimeter wavelengths: frequencies thousands of times higher than conventional cellular telephones or television broadcasts.
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 Antiope (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
The consort of Zeus and the mother of Amphion and Zethos (Zethus).
As with many of the older myths, there is a certain amount of ambiguity as to who was who; in The Odyssey, Antiope is said to be the daughter of the river Asopos (Asopus) and the sister of Sinope but in Argonautika she is said to be the daughter of Nykteus (Nycteus).
In Argonautika, it is clear that Antiope’s father, Nykteus and her uncle, Lykus (Lycus), were both rulers of the city of Thebes and both died as a direct result of Zeus’; relationship with Antiope.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Antiope_1.html   (351 words)

  
 The Unofficial Antiope Biography
But her sister Antiope chose a more violent way, leading the other half of the Amazons to pursue Heracles' army.
Then Antiope was murdered by Theseus' ex-wife Ariadne, while her own daughter Phthia was framed for it by Theseus' son Menallipus.
This was the start of an era of bloodshed for Antiope's tribe, who emigrated and settled down in the Egyptian city of Bana-Mighdall.
www.dcuguide.com /who.php?name=antiope   (267 words)

  
 Theseus and Antiope
In Pausanias' Description of Greece, the tomb of Hippolyte is described, and he states that she was the sister of Antiope, not the wife of Theseus.
One subject all sources agree upon is that Antiope bore a son named Hippolytus, thus she is generally identified as Hippolyte by modern scholars.
Their son is one of the main characters in a play by Euripides of the same name.
www.arthistory.sbc.edu /imageswomen/papers/snideramazons/theseus.html   (598 words)

  
 APOD: 2000 November 1 - Double Asteroid 90 Antiope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Now, these premier images reveal Antiope to actually consist of two 50 mile wide asteroids separated by about 100 miles.
Binary asteroids and asteroids with moons are believed to be rare, but observations of their orbits allow a direct determination of asteroid masses and densities.
Surprisingly, Antiope and known asteroid-moon systems are found to have densities closer to ice than rock, despite their relatively dark and unreflective surfaces.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap001101.html   (192 words)

  
 90 Antiope Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 (90) Antiope and S/2000 (90) 1
Vogel, H. 1869, Astronomische Nachrichten Ephemeride der Antiope (90) für die Opposition 1870.
Vogel, H. 1869, Astronomische Nachrichten Auffindung der Antiope (90) in der dritten Erscheinung.
Bruhns, Carl 1867, Astronomische Nachrichten Beobachtungen der Antiope und Beatrix auf der Leipziger Sternwarte.
www.johnstonsarchive.net /astro/astmoons/am-00090.html   (631 words)

  
 Antiope Associates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Wright is a co-founder and CTO of Antiope Associates LLC.
Previously, he was a founder of PacketStorm Communications, a successful communications test equipment company.
Copyright © 2004 - 2005 Antiope Associates LLC
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 Ancient Mosaics | Antiope : Tile Tables
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 Asteroid Satellites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Discovery of Companions to Asteroids 762 Pulcova and 90 Antiope
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Fig 1: Raw Keck image of 90 Antiope with satellite
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Virgin Birth of Christ
About A.D. St. Justin (Apol., I, xxi) told his pagan readers that the virgin birth of Jesus Christ ought not to seem incredible to them, since many of the most esteemed pagan writers spoke of a number of sons of Zeus.
About A.D. 178 the Platonic philosopher Celsus ridiculed the virgin birth of Christ, comparing it with the Greek myths of Danae, Melanippe, and Antiope; Origen (c.
I, xxxvii) answered that Celsus wrote more like a buffoon than a philosopher.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15448a.htm   (3267 words)

  
 Interealms - The Ranger's Glade - View Profile: Antiope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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