Antiope
Family: Thebes · Role: mother of Amphion and Zethus; daughter of Asopus · First appears: Book I 6
Life events
- Otrere and Antiope build a stone temple of Ares on an island.(Book II 4)
- With: Otrere
- “In it the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a stone temple of Ares what time they went forth to war.”
Book I 6
- child: Amphion “In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.”
- child: Zethus “In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.”
- parent: Asopus “In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.”
Book II 4
- with Ares (Antiope built a temple dedicated to Ares.) “the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a stone temple of Ares”
- with Otrere (They jointly built a temple.) “In it the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a stone temple of Ares what time they went forth to war.”
Book IV 9
- parent: Nycteus “For fathers are all too jealous against their children; what wrong did Nycteus devise against Antiope, fair of face!”
- with Nycteus (Nycteus devised some wrong against Antiope.) “For fathers are all too jealous against their children; what wrong did Nycteus devise against Antiope, fair of face?”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.