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	Amphion - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Amphion, in Greek mythology, king of Thebes, one of the two sons of Zeus and Antiope.
		Antiope, in Greek mythology, mother of the twins Amphion and Zethus, whose father was Zeus.
		Antiope was imprisoned by a tyrant, Lycus, and his...
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	Amphion and Zethus
		Amphion ("native of two lands") and Zethus, in ancient Greek mythology, were the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope.
		Their mother had abandoned them when she fled in shame because of her pregnancy to a man other than her husband (who was either King Nycteus of Thebes or the river god Asopus).
		Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children at the hands of Apollo and Artemis (see Niobe).
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	Antiope (mother of Amphion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, Antiope ([æn ˈtaɪ o pe]) was the name of the daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus, according to Homer (Od.
		On the way home she gave birth, in the neighbourhood of Eleutherae on Mount Cithaeron, to the twins Amphion and Zethus, of whom Amphion was the son of the god, and Zethus the son of Epopeus.
		At Thebes Antiope now suffered from the persecution of Dirce, the wife of Lycus, but at last escaped towards Eleutherae, and there found shelter, unknowingly, in the house where her two sons were living as herdsmen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antiope_(mother_of_Amphion) (384 words)

	Amphion 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Having met their mother when they were grown up, they avenged her who was kept as a slave, and took power in Thebes by force, killing the ruler of the city and his wife.
		Amphion 1 became then king of Thebes, and since he was a musical genius, the stones followed his lyre when he fortified the city.
		Antiope 3 was often left in darkness, and denied water to quench her thirst.
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	Greek Mythology: ANTIOPE Naiad Nymph of Thebes in Boeotia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ANTIOPE was a Nymph of Mount Kithairon in Boiotia (central Greece).
		Antiope was usually described as a daughter of the mortal Nykteus (he of the Night).
		Antiope, daughter of Asopos, may have identified with Thebe, another River nymph associated with the town.
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheAntiope.html (233 words)

	Antiope - LoveToKnow 1911
		For this, it is said, Dionysus, to whose worship Dirce had been devoted, visited Antiope with madness, which caused her to wander restlessly all over Greece till she was cured, and married by Phocus of Tithorea, on Mount Parnassus, where both were buried in one grave (Pausanias ix.
		(2) A second Antiope, daughter of Ares, and sister of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons, was the wife of Theseus.
		Or again, Theseus himself invaded the dominion of the Amazons and carried her off, the consequence of which was a counter-invasion of Attica by the Amazons.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Antiope (473 words)

	Antiope
		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.
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	AllRefer.com - Antiope (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		According to one legend she was abducted by Theseus and became the mother of Hippolytus.
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	Amphion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus (see Amphion and Zethus).
		Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children at the hands of Apollo and Artemis.
		Amphion, son of Hyperasius and Hypso, an Argonaut.
	www.godseye.com /stat/en/a/m/p/Amphion.html (142 words)

	Map of the Underworld, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Odysseus was stirred to compassion when he saw his mother's soul, for she was still alive when he left Ithaca.
		Mother of the ALOADS, who had the ambition of piling Mount Ossa on Olympus, and Mount Pelion on Ossa, and in that way reach up to heaven [see Zeus, for their attack against his rule].
		Odysseus saw this son of Gaia being punished in the Underworld for having attacked Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis.
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	Amphion and Zethus
		Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after Zeus raped her, and married King Epopeus there.
		Amphion married Niobe, the daugter of Tantalus, the Lydian king.
		Amphion's wife Niobe had many children, but had become arrogant and because of this she insulted the goddess Leto, who had only two, Artemis and Apollo.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Zethus (465 words)

	Antiope (disambiguation) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antiope is the name of at least two characters in Greek mythology.
		the mother of Amphion, associated with the mythology of Greek Thebes.
		The Sleep of Antiope is a chef-d'oeuvre of Correggio in the Louvre.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Antiope (206 words)

	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.
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	Pentheus 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Pentheus 1's mother was Agave 2, one of the daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia 1.
		But the willingness with which he wished to regale Thebes with these ambitious brothers, he did not show when the god of the vine came to the city, and believing Dionysus 2 to be a mortal man and not a god, he opposed him and thus met his death.
		This is how Dionysus 2 punished both Pentheus 1, his mother, and her sisters, letting them destroy each other by means of their own violence, and joining all of them in one ruin for having failed to revere him as a god.
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	hss_powell_classical_4\|Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes\|Key Terms
		Mother by Zeus of Amphion and Sethus; pursued by Nycteus her father, Lycus, her uncle.
		Wife of Lycus; tormented Antiopê, mother of Amphion and Zethus, until she herself was put to death by the twins.
		One of AntiopÍ's twin sons; ruled in Thebes with his brother, Amphion; unlike Amphion, he was a man of ranching and practical affairs.
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	Antiope - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Antiope (mythology), the sister of Hippolyte, was kidnapped by Theseus, during Heracles' ninth labor
		Antiope (mother of Amphion), associated with the mythology of Greek Thebes
		Antiope (comics), from the fictional DC Comics universe
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Antiope (119 words)

	Antiope
		During this war, Antiope was said to have fought on the side of the Amazons.
		Antiope was furious about this and decided to attack them on their wedding day.
		There is also Antiope, mother of Amphion associated with the mythology of Greek Thebes.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Antiope.html (364 words)

	thebes3.html
		The fortification of Thebes by Zethos and Amphion is pictured on a cloak given to Iason by Athena in the Argonautika of Apollonios.
		Amphion is also said to have learned Lydian music from his father-in-law Tantalos, and to have changed the lyre from four strings to seven strings.
		As for Amphion, he either was killed along with his children, committed suicide, or went mad and attacked Apollo's temple, where the god killed him with an arrow.
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	Category of heroinesencompassesa broadrange of figures
		The couple Phoinix and Amphione are invoked in the oath of Dreros on Crete, Buck (1955), lines 30-31 (third to second century B.C.).
		Daughter of Amphion and Niobe; had statue beside that of Leto in the goddess’s temple at Argos, and they appear on coins together.
		Beloved of Zeus and mother of Minos, Rhadamanthos and Sarpedon.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/3heroines.html (4252 words)

	Odysseus Homework Page
		Mother of the ALOADS, who had the ambition of piling Mount Ossa on Olympus, and Mount Pelion on Ossa, and in that way reach up to heaven.
		Others say that Odysseus went to Aetolia and there he married the daughter of Thoas (King of Pleuron and Calydon who had been the leader of the Aetolians against Troy), and had by her a son Leontophonus.
		And having come to Ithaca, he drove away some of the cattle, and when Odysseus defended them, Telegonus wounded him with the spear he had in his hands, which was barbed with the spine of a stingray, and Odysseus died of the wound.
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	Amphion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mercury gave Amphion a lyre, and taught him to play upon it, and his brother occupied himself in hunting and tending the flocks.
		Meanwhile Antiope, their mother, who had been treated with great cruelty by Lycus, the usurping king of Thebes, and by Dirce, his wife, found means to inform her children of their rights, and to summon them to her assistance.
		With a band of their fellow-herdsmen they attacked and slew Lycus, and tying Dirce by the hair of her head to a bull, let him drag her till she was dead (the punishment of Dirce is the subject of a celebrated group of statuary now in the Museum at Naples).
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	Amphion
		Amphion is the son of Zeus and the nymph Antiope, the queen of Thebes.
		When they reached maturity, the two brothers exacted a terrible revenge upon king Lycus of Thebes and his wife Dirce, for she had been treating their mother Antiope as a slave.
		Both brothers were supposed to have build the walls of Thebes, while Amphion played his lyre.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/a/amphion.html (133 words)

	Asopus - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pausanias says that the Boeotian city of Thespiae was either named from Thespia daughter of Asopus or from Thespius a descendant of Erechtheus who came there from Athens.
		Finally Antiope mother of Amphion and Zethus by Zeus is sometimes a daughter of Asopus.
		Pausanias (5.22.1) and Diodorus Siculus (4.73.1) also mention a daughter Harpina and state that according to the traditions of the Eleans and Phliasians Ares lay with her in the city of Pisa and she bore him Oenomaus who Pausanias says (6.21.6) founded the city of Harpina named after her, not far from the river Harpinates.
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	Antiope (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antiope ([æn ˈtaɪ o pe]) is a figure from Greek mythology.
		During this conflict, known as the Attic War, Antiope was said to have fought on the side of the Amazons.
		She promised to kill every person in attendance; however, she was slain instead, fulfilling an oracle's prophecy to that effect, though it took Theseus, Heracles, and an army to kill her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antiope_(mythology) (309 words)

	Amphion and Zethus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their mother had abandoned them she fled in shame because of her to a man other than her husband was either King Nycteus of Thebes or the river god Asopus).
		Amphion became a great singer and musician Hermes taught him to play and gave a golden lyre Zethus a hunter and They punished King Lycus and Queen Dirce for cruel treatment of Antiope their whom was treated as a slave.
		They built and fortified Thebes huge blocks of stone forming themselves walls at the sound of Amphion's lyre.
	www.freeglossary.com /Amphion_and_Zethus (191 words)

	90 Antiope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 90th asteroid to be discovered, it is named after Antiope from Greek mythology, though it is disputed as to whether the namesake is Antiope the Amazon or Antiope the mother of Amphion and Zethus.
		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.
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	Antiope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antiope (mother of Amphion) This article is about things and people (including named.
		She was Antiope - and bore him twin sons, Zethus and (nt´p), in Greek mythology.
		Antiope in Greek legend, the mother, her beauty attracted Amphion and Zethus.
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	Mythology Guide - Amphion
		Amphion was the son of Jupiter and Antiope, queen of Thebes.
		Amphion, having become king of Thebes fortified the
		In Tennyson's poem of Amphion is an amusing use of this story:
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