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Amphion

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Amphion (ăm`fēən): see Antiope Antiope , in Greek mythology.

1 Theban princess, daughter of Nycteus. She was seduced by Zeus and bore him twin sons, Zethus and Amphion. Fleeing to Sicyon to escape the wrath of her father, she was forced to abandon her infants on Mt.
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Amphion
his music so powerful that stones for a wall are moved into place. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 32]
See : Music
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Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
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2: Hesiod says that (the children of Amphion and Niobe) were ten sons and ten daughters.
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