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ANTIOPE . (1) In See also:

Greek See also:legend, the See also:mother of See also:Amphion and Zethus, and, according to See also:Homer (Od. xi. 26o), a daughter of the Boeotian See also:river-See also:god Asopus. In later poems she is called the daughter of Nycteus or See also:Lycurgus. Her beauty attracted See also:Zeus, who, assuming the See also:form of a satyr, took her by force (See also:Apollodorus iii. 5). After this she was carried off by Epopeus, See also:king of See also:Sicyon, who would not give her up till compelled by her See also:uncle Lycus. On the way See also:home she gave See also:birth, in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood of Eleutherae on See also:Mount See also:Cithaeron, to the twins Amphion and Zethus, of whom Amphion was the son of the god, and Zethus the son of Epopeus. Both were See also:left to be brought up by herdsmen. At See also:Thebes Antiope now suffered from the persecution of See also:Dirce, the wife of Lycus, but at last escaped towards Eleutherae, and there found shelter, unknowingly, in the See also:house where her two sons were living as herdsmen. Here she was discovered by Dirce, who ordered the two See also:young men to tie her to the horns of a See also:wild See also:bull. They were about to obey, when the old herdsman, who had brought them up, revealed his See also:secret, and they carried out the See also:punishment on Dirce instead (See also:Hyginus; Fab.

8). For this, it is said, See also:

Dionysus, to whose See also:worship Dirce had been devoted, visited Antiope with madness, which caused her to wander restlessly all over See also:Greece till she was cured, and married by Phocus of Tithorea, on Mount See also:Parnassus, where both were buried in one See also:grave (See also:Pausanias ix. 17, X. 32). (2) A second Antiope, daughter of See also:Ares, and See also:sister of Hippolyte; See also:queen of the See also:Amazons, was the wife of See also:Theseus. There are various accounts of the manner in which Theseus became possessed of her, and of her subsequent fortunes. Either she gave herself up to him out of love, when with Heracles he captured Themiscyra, the seat of the Amazons, or she See also:fell' to his See also:lot as a See also:captive (Dipdorus iv. 16). Or again, Theseus himself invaded the dominion of the Amazons and carried her off, the consequence of which was a See also:counter-invasion of See also:Attica by the Amazons. After four months of See also:war See also:peace was made, and Antiope left with Theseus as a peace-offering. According to another See also:account, she had joined the Amazons against him because he had been untrue to her in desiring to marry See also:Phaedra. She is said to have been killed by another See also:Amazon, Molpadia, a See also:rival in her See also:affection for Theseus.

Elsewhere it was believed that he had himself killed her, and fulfilled an See also:

oracle to that effect (Hyginus, Fab. 241). By Theseus she had a son, the well-known See also:Hippolytus (See also:Plutarch, Theseus).

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