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In Greek mythology, Antiope (/ æ n ˈ t aɪ ə p i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη derived from αντι anti "against, compared to, like" and οψ ops "voice" or means "confronting" [1]) was the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer; [2] in later sources [3] she is called the daughter of the "nocturnal" king Nycteus ...
Antiope, daughter of King Belus of Egypt and possibly, Achiroe, the naiad daughter of the river-god Nilus. [2] She was the sister of Agenor II, [3] Phineus, Aegyptus, Danaus, Cepheus and Ninus. By her uncle, King Agenor I [3] of Tyre, Antiope became the mother of Cadmus and his siblings. [4] In some accounts, this daughter of Belus was called ...
Antiope (Greek myth), several figures in Greek mythology including: Antiope (Amazon), daughter of Ares; Antiope (mother of Amphion), mother of Amphion by Zeus, associated with the mythology of Thebes, Greece; Antiope (daughter of Pylon), also called Antioche, a daughter of Pylon and wife of Eurytus
In the Odyssey, however, Zethus's wife is called Aëdon, a daughter of Pandareus in book 19, who killed her son Itylus in a fit of madness and became a nightingale. [11] Later authors would clarify that Aëdon tried to kill Niobe and Amphion's firstborn Amaleus out of jealousy that Niobe had borne many children, while she and Zethus only had one.
Apollodorus [18] claims Asopus had twenty daughters but he does not provide a list. Pausanias [19] mentions three supposed daughters of Phliasian Asopus named Corcyra, Aegina, and Thebe according to the Phliasians and notes additionally that the Thebans insist that this Thebe was daughter of the Boeotian Asopus. He mentions no dispute about the ...
Thebe (Ancient Greek: Θήβη) is a feminine name mentioned several times in Greek mythology, in accounts that imply multiple female characters, four of whom are said to have had three cities named Thebes after them: Thebe, eponym of Thebes, Egypt. [1] She was the daughter of either Nilus, Proteus, [2] or Libys, son of Epirus.
In Greek mythology, Thespia (Ancient Greek: Θέσπια) was the daughter of the river god Asopus and Metope, daughter of Ladon, himself a river god. She was abducted to Thespiae (the city west of Thebes) by Apollo, and the city might have been named after her. [1] [2]
Jupiter and Antiope is a frequent theme in western painting and has been treated by Titian, Van Dyck, Watteau and David among others. They are based on the story of the seduction of Antiope by the god Zeus in Greek mythology , later imported into Roman mythology and told of the god Jupiter .