ANTIOPE. (I) In Greek legend, the mother by Zeus of Amphion and Zethus. Her beauty attracted Zeus, who, assum ing the form of a satyr, took her by force. She ran away from her father and married Epopeus, king of Sicyon. Thereupon her father killed himself, first bidding his brother Lycus punish her. Lycus (who in some accounts was her former husband) killed Epopeus, brought Antiope back, and imprisoned and tormented her (or his wife Dirce did so, out of jealousy). On the way back, or of ter escaping from prison, she bore twins, Amphion and Ze thus, who were brought up by herdsmen. Long after, she escaped and joined her sons; they recognized her, killed Lycus, and bound Dirce to the horns of a wild bull. For this, Dionysus, to whose worship 'Dirce had been devoted, visited Antiope with madness, which caused her to wander restlessly all over Greece till she was cured and married by Phocus of Tithorea, on Mt. Parnassus, where both were buried in one grave (Ovid Metam. VI., III.; Apollodorus III., 42-44; Hyginus, Fab.; 7, 8; Pausanias, IX. 17, 6).
(2) Daughter of Ares, sister of Hippolyte, queen of the Ama zons, the wife of Theseus (q.v.).