Antiope
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Odyssey
Daughter of Asopos who bears Zeus two sons, Amphion and Zethos, founders of seven-gated Thebes.
"Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopos, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Zeus himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethos.
Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
One of the women carried off by Theseus.
Furthermore, the transgressions of Theseus in his rapes of women admit of no plausible excuse.
Theseus
Amazon captured by Theseus, brought to Athens, bore him a son (Hippolytus/Demophoon), and died before his marriage to Phaedra.
Theseus did, indeed, marry Phaedra, but this was after the death of Antiope, and he had a son by Antiope, Hippolytus, or, as Pindar says, Demophoon.
And it is not astonishing that history, when dealing with events of such great antiquity, should wander in uncertainty, indeed, we are also told that the wounded Amazons were secretly sent away to Chalcis by Antiope, and were nursed there, and some were buried there, near what is now called the Amazoneum.
And a certain Menecrates, who published a history of the Bithynian city of Nicaea, says that Theseus, with Antiope on board his ship, spent some time in those parts, and that there chanced to be with him on this expedition three young men of Athens who were brothers, Euneos, Thoas, and Solois.