Amphion · Atlas · Falsafa

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Amphion of Thebes1 mention

Protrepticus (Greek)

Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both singers, and both are the stuff of legend;

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in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Mythological musician, son of a Muse, famed for building the walls of Thebes through the power of his music.

for the one was a son of a Muse, but these have sprung from Unmusicalness itself;

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Amphion, then, by melody, as they say, roused and walled the city;

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Why does Amphion sing?

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GorgiasClassical · Greek

Amphion, brother of Zethus in Euripides's Antiope, cast in the role Socrates occupies in Callicles's analogy.

You neglect, Socrates, what you ought to mind;

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Why, to be sure, Gorgias, I myself should have liked to continue discussing with Callicles here until I had paid him an Amphion’s speech in return for his of Zethus.

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Seven Against ThebesClassical · Greek

A legendary son of Zeus associated with the founding of Thebes's walls, whose tomb is used to locate the Northern gate.

Next I describe the fifth man who is stationed at the fifth, the Northern gate opposite the tomb of Amphion, Zeus’s son.

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BirdsClassical · Greek

A mythological figure associated with the building of Thebes's walls by the power of his lyre; his dwelling is invoked by Pisthetaerus as a target for destruction alongside Zeus's palace.

Know, that if Zeus worries me again, I shall go at the head of my eagles, who are armed with lightning, and reduce his dwelling and that of Amphion to cinders.

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ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

Legendary Theban singer said to have built the walls of Thebes with his music.

Amphion of Thebes and Arion of Methymna were both singers, and both are the stuff of legend;

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To my mind, then, that Thracian Orpheus, and the Theban and the Methymnean — men who were no men — were deceivers;

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Mythic figure addressing Antiope about Zeus's disguise.

For neither do I think it secret — "putting on the shape of a malefactor of light, to come to your bed, like a man, to Zeus's chamber" — Amphion says to Antiope.

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PhoenissaeClassical · Greek

Legendary co-founder of Thebes said to have raised its walls by the music of his lyre.

Are the gates barred, and the brazen bolts fitted into Amphion’s walls of stone?

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In days gone by the sons of heaven came to the wedding of Harmonia, and the walls and towers of Thebes rose to the sound of Amphion’s lyre, in the midst between the double streams where Dirce waters the grass-green field before Ismenus;

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Bacchiad noble of Corinth, father of the crippled Labda.

Now Amphion, one of these men, had a crippled daughter, whose name was Labda.

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IliadClassical · Greek

Epean commander named alongside Meges and Drakios.

Meges son of Phyleus, Amphion, and Drakios commanded the Epeans, while Medon and staunch Podarkes led the men of Phthia.

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LawsClassical · Greek

Mythological figure credited with the invention of lyric arts.

Do you mean that these things were unknown to the men of those days for thousands upon thousands of years, and that one or two thousand years ago some of them were revealed to Daedalus, some to Orpheus, some to Palamedes, musical arts to Marsyas and Olympus, lyric to Amphion, and, in short, a vast number of others to other persons—all dating, so to say, from yesterday or the day before?

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