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Topic: Antiope (disambiguation)


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  Antiope - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Antiope, in Greek mythology, mother of the twins Amphion and Zethus, whose father was Zeus.
Antiope was imprisoned by a tyrant, Lycus, and his wife,...
Hippolytus, in Greek mythology, son of the Theban hero Theseus and his wife Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons, or alternatively the son of her sister...
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One of the tasks imposed upon Heracles by Eurystheus was to obtain possession of the girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyte (Apollodorus ii.
He was accompanied by his friend Theseus, who carried off the princess Antiope, sister of Hippolyte, an incident which led to a retaliatory invasion of Attica, in which Antiope perished fighting by the side of Theseus.
The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas-reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
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  Antiope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antiope - sister of Hippolyte kidnapped by Theseus, during Heracles' ninth labour;
Antiope - associated with the mythology of Thebes, Greece.
Antiope - a chef-d'oeuvre of Correggio in the Louvre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antiope   (99 words)

  
 Teletext Flights
A fundamental difference in technical philosophy between Antiope and Ceefax stemmed from the fact that Antiope was developed by telecommunications engineers, while Ceefax was developed by television engineers.
This resulted in Antiope being a packet-switching system, with variable length packets of data, as might be used on a telephone network.
Antiope vanished before teletext became popular in France.
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