Zethus

Family: Theban · Role: son of Antiope · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Zethus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Zethus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Zethus)

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• parent: Zeus (Zeus fathered Antiope's children.) “When she was with child, and her father threatened her, she ran away to Epopeus at Sicyon and was married to him.”
• parent: Antiope “On the way she gave birth to two sons at Eleurethae in Boeotia . The infants were exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he called the one Zethus and the other Amphion.”
• siblings with Amphion “The infants were exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he called the one Zethus and the other Amphion.”
• married with Thebe “Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city of Thebes is named;”
• enemies with Lycus “They recognized their mother and slew Lycus, but Dirce they tied to a bull, and flung her dead body into the spring that is called Dirce after her.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Zeus “Antiope had Zethus and Amphion by Zeus.”

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