AMPHION
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 886
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
AMPHION
and ZETHUS, in See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:mythology, the twin sons of See also:Zeus by See also:Antiope
.
When See also:children, they were exposed on See also:Mount See also:Cithaeron, but were found and brought up by a shepherd
.
Amphion became a See also:great See also:singer and musician, Zethus a See also:hunter and herdsman (See also:Apollodorus iii
.
5)
.
After punishing Lycus and See also:Dirce for cruel treatment of Antiope (q.v.), they built and fortified See also:Thebes, huge blocks of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone forming themselves into walls at the See also:sound of Amphion's See also:lyre (See also:Horace, Odes, iii. r1)
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Amphion married See also:Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (See also:Ovid, Metam. vi
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270)
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The See also:brothers were
buried in one See also:grave and worshipped as the Dioscuri " with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white horses " (Eurip
.
Phoen
.
609)
.
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