Antiope
(Ἀντιόπη).
1. A daughter of Nycteus and Polyxo (Apollod. 3.5.5, 10.1), or of the river god Asopus in Bocotia. (Odyss. 11.260; Apollon. 1.735.) She became by Zeus the mother of Amphion and Zethus. [Amphion.] Dionysus threw her into a state of madness on account of the vengeance which her sons had taken on Dirce. In this condition she wandered about through Greece, until Phocus, the grandson of Sisyphus, cured and married her. She was buried with Phocus in one common tomb. (Paus. 9.17.4.)
2. An Amazon, a sister of Hippolyte, who married Theseus. (Paus. 1.2.1, 41.7.) According to Servius(Serv. ad Aen. 11.661), she was a daughter of Hippolyte. Diodorus (4.16) states, that Theseus received her as a present from Heracles. When subsequently Attica was invaded by the Amazons, Antiope fought with Theseus against them, and died the death of a heroine by his side. (Comp. Diod. 4.28; Plut. Thes. 26, 27.) According to Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 241) Antiope was a daughter of Ares, and was killed by Theseus himself in consequence of an oracle.
3. A daughter of Pylon or Pylaon, was married to Eurytus, by whom she became the mother of the Argonauts Iphitus and Clytius. She is also called Antioche. (Apollon. 1.86; Hyg. Fab. 14, with Muncker's note.)
4. A daughter of Aeolus, by whom Poseidon begot Boeotus and Hellen. (Hyg. Fab. 157 ; Diod. 4.67, who calls the mother of these two heroes Arne.) [Aeolus.]
Two other mythical personages of this name occur in Apollod. 2.7.8, and in Serv. ad Aen. 6.46, though Servius seems to confound Antiope with Anteia, the wife of Proetus. [L.S]
(Ἀντιόπη). (1) In Homer (Odyss. xi. 260) a daughter of the Boeotian river-god Asopus, mother by Zeus of Amphion and Zethus. In later legend her father is Nycteus of Hyria or Hysiae. As he threatened to punish her for yielding to the approaches of Zeus under the form of a satyr, she fled to Epopeus of Sicyon. This king her uncle Lycus killed by order of his brother Nycteus, now dead, and led her back in chains. Arrived on Mount Cithaeron, she gave birth to twins—Amphion by Zeus, Zethus by Epopeus—whom Lycus left exposed upon the mountain. After being long imprisoned and ill-treated by Dircé, the wife of Lycus , she escaped to Cithaeron, and made acquaintance with her sons, whom a shepherd had brought up. She made them take a frightful vengeance upon Dircé by tying her to a furious bull, for doing which Dionysus drove her mad, and she wandered through Greece until Phocus, king of Phocis, healed her and made her his wife.
(2) An Amazon, sister of Hippolyté the wife of Theseus and mother of Hippolytus (q.v.).
- Paus. 1.41.7
- carried off by Theseus: Apollod. E.1.15
- her tomb at Athens: Paus. 1.2.1
- loved by Zeus: Apollod. 3.5.5
- daughter of Nycteus or of Asopus, carried off from Thebes by Epopeus: Paus. 2.6.1ff.
- runs away to Epopeus at Sicyon and is married to him: Apollod. 3.5.5
- surrendered by Lamedon to Thebans: Paus. 2.6.3
- captured by her uncle Lycus: Apollod. 3.5.5
- mother of Zethus and Amphion by Zeus: Apollod. 3.10.1
- gives birth to Amphion and Zethus: Paus. 2.6.3ff., Apollod. 3.5.5
- places babes in cave: Paus. 1.38.9
- is tormented by Lycus and Dirce, but released by her sons: Apollod. 3.5.5
- tormented by Dirce: Paus. 9.25.3
- her children kill Dirce: Paus. 9.25.3
- punished by Dionysus with madness: Paus. 9.17.6, Paus. 10.32.10
- healed and married by Phocus: Paus. 9.17.6, Paus. 10.32.11
- buried with Phocus at Tithorea: Paus. 9.17.4, 6, Paus. 10.32.10, 11
- image: Paus. 2.10.4
- mother of Alopius by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.7