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AMPHION

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMPHION and ZETHUS, in See also:

ancient See also:Greek See also:mythology, the twin sons of See also:Zeus by See also:Antiope. When See also:children, they were exposed on See also:Mount See also:Cithaeron, but were found and brought up by a shepherd. Amphion became a See also:great See also:singer and musician, Zethus a See also:hunter and herdsman (See also:Apollodorus iii. 5). After punishing Lycus and See also:Dirce for cruel treatment of Antiope (q.v.), they built and fortified See also:Thebes, huge blocks of See also:stone forming themselves into walls at the See also:sound of Amphion's See also:lyre (See also:Horace, Odes, iii. r1). Amphion married See also:Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (See also:Ovid, Metam. vi. 270). The See also:brothers were buried in one See also:grave and worshipped as the Dioscuri " with See also:white horses " (Eurip. Phoen. 609).

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