Antiope

Over the sea, too, that bears her name, the Ionian Sea, she wandered until at last she arrived in Egypt, where she was restored to her natural f- natural form and gave birth to a son, the ancestor of the Ionian Greeks.

Antiope was the daughter of the king of Thebes.

By Zeus, she became the mother of two sons, Amphion and Zethus.

Immediately after their birth, the babies were taken from her and exposed on Mount Cithaeron.

Antiope was the daughter of the king of Thebes.

By Zeus, she became the mother of two sons, Amphion and Zethus.

Immediately after their birth, the babies were taken from her and exposed on Mount Cithaeron, where they grew up among the shepherds.

Antiope fell into the power of her uncle, Lycus, whose wife, Dirce, treated her with the greatest cruelty.