Amphion and Zethus
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Amphion and Zethus were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope. They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, because they constructed th
Dirce's punishment by Amphion and Zethus - Roman wall painting in House of the Vettii, Pompeii.
Amphion and Zethus
Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons, printed by Johannes Zainer (ca. 1474)
Amphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus
Dirce
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Dirce was a queen of Thebes as the wife of Lycus in Greek mythology.
The punishment of Dirce on a Lucanian red-figure pelike from Policoro (ancient Herakleia), c. 400 BCE
The Farnese Bull
A Christian Dirce, by Henryk Siemiradzki.