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DIRCE , in See also:Greek See also:legend, daughter of Helios the See also:sun-See also:god, the second wife of Lycus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Thebes. She sorely persecuted See also:Antiope, his first wife, who escaped to See also:Mount See also:Cithaeron, where her twin sons See also:Amphion and Zethus were being brought up by a herdsman who was ignorant of their parentage. Having recognized their See also:mother, the sons avenged her by tying Dirce to the horns of a See also:wild See also:bull, which dragged her about till she died. Her See also:body was See also:cast into a See also:spring near Thebes, which was ever after-wards called by her name. Her See also:punishment is the subject of the famous See also:group called " The See also:Farnese Bull," by See also:Apollonius and Tauriscus of See also:Tralles, in the See also:Naples museum (see GREEK See also:ART, See also:Plate I. fig. 51).
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