Nov 29, 2022 · Antiope, daughter of Ares, was a great warrior and an Amazon queen. She is best known for being carried off by the Athenian hero Theseus (though whether she went willingly …

Oct 9, 2023 · Antiope was the beautiful daughter of either King Nycteus of Thebes or of the river god Asopus. Zeus fell in love with her and slept with her in the form of a satyr. Fleeing to …

Oct 9, 2023 · Zethus was a Greek hero and king, the son of Zeus and Antiope and the twin brother of Amphion (though some sources named Antiope’s mortal husband Epopeus of …

May 16, 2023 · The myth of Theseus and Antiope is also reimagined in Steven Pressfield’s novel Last of the Amazons (2002). Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The House of Asterion (published …

Sep 28, 2023 · Dirce, daughter of Ismenus, was the wife of the Theban king Lycus. She is best remembered for her savage mistreatment of her husband’s niece Antiope. Dirce was ultimately …

Oct 9, 2023 · Amphion was a Greek hero and king, the son of Zeus and Antiope and the twin brother of Zethus (in some accounts, Antiope’s mortal husband Epopeus of Sicyon was also …

Jul 11, 2023 · Her sisters may have included Antiope, Penthesilea, Melanippe, and Orithyia. In some traditions, Hippolyta was taken captive by the Athenian Theseus after she lost her girdle …

Jul 28, 2023 · Theseus’ abduction of the Amazon queen Antiope has been the subject of several historical fiction novels, most notably Mary Renault’s The Bull from the Sea (1962) and Steven …

May 23, 2023 · Greek. Ariadne first appeared in Greek literature in the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems attributed to Homer (eighth century BCE): Book 18 of the Iliad briefly mentions that …

Mar 10, 2023 · Overview. Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and Otrera, was an Amazon queen who fought and died in the Trojan War. . After Hector, the leader of the Trojan army, was killed in …