Amphion ( ancient Greek Ἀμφίων , "omnipresent") is in ancient Greek mythology [4] the king of Thebes , son of Zeus and Antiope , twin brother of Zefa , husband of Nioby , father of seven sons and seven daughters (for other versions of the number of children, see Niobah ).
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His mother Antiope , pregnant by Zeus , who seduced her in the guise of a satire, in fear of the anger of her father, Niktea fled to the city of Sicyon , where she married Epic . Niktay before his death asked Brother Lik to take revenge on Antiope. Lik went to Sikyon and captured Antiope, killing her husband. On the way to Thebes, she gave birth to two twins, conceived from Zeus (Amphion and Zeph ), who were left at Mount Kiferon . Amphion brought up a shepherd. He became Kifared, Hermes gave him a lyre. Before accession, he lived with his brother in the village of Eutresia in the region of Thespies [5] . Amphion was famous as a musician: he learned music from Lydians and added three to his 4 lyre strings. According to the poem about Europe (Eumela), Amphion taught Hermes to use lira, he attracted singing stones and animals. According to the poetess Miro, he built an altar to Hermes and received a lyre [6] . Peanas sang on Arakinfe [7] , in the hymns they called Ether as Zeus [8] .
Twenty years later, Antiope fled and found sons, who then captured the city of Thebes. Together with his brother Amphion, he killed Lika and tied Dirk to the bull. With my brother I strengthened Thebes with walls [9] . The stones during construction themselves moved to the sounds of Amphion's lyre [10] . He told the Athenians a riddle of a turtle [11] . According to Homer, Zeph and Amphion first built Thebes [12] . According to a certain Egyptian, stones came to the songs of Amphion [13] . According to a later interpretation, they gathered an army and won the battle of Lika; later, a pestilence destroyed the house of Amphion [14] . Niob's wife. According to the version, he named the gate in honor of his 7 daughters [15] .
He died from the arrows of Apollo and Artemis [16] , or committed suicide after the death of his sons [17] . When he wanted to destroy the sanctuary of Apollo, he was killed by his arrows [18] . His house was burned [19] .
Zephu and Amphion were erected a common grave at Thebes. The stones that make up its foundation are the very ones that moved at the sound of his songs. Following the prediction of Bakid , the inhabitants of Tiforei are trying to abduct the earth from the grave and put it on the grave of Antiope when the sun passes through the constellation Taurus , so that the fields bring them harvest [20] . See Nonn. Acts of Dionysus V 66.
The protagonist of the tragedy of Euripides "Antiope" [21] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Amphion // Encyclopedic Dictionary / ed. I. E. Andreevsky - SPb. : Brockhaus - Efron , 1890. - T. Ia. - p. 686.
- ↑ Lubker F. Amphio // The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Lubker / ed. F. F. Zelinsky , L. A. Georgievsky , M. S. Kutorga, and others. - SPb. : Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy , 1885. - p. 80–81.
- ↑ Lubker F. Niobe // The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Lubker / ed. F. F. Zelinsky , L. A. Georgievsky , M. S. Kutorga, and others. - SPb. : Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy , 1885. - p. 921–923.
- ↑ Myths of the peoples of the world . M., 1991-92. In 2 t. T. 1. S. 72-73; Lyubker F. Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities . M., 2001. In 3 t. T. 1. S. 96-97; Pseudo-Apollodor. Mythological Library I 9, 9-10 more
- ↑ Strabo. Geography IX 2, 28
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Hellas IX 5, 8
- ↑ Virgil. Bucolica II 24; Perperts. Elegies III 15, 42
- ↑ Euripides. Antiope, fr. 941 Sciences
- ↑ Homer. Odyssey XI 262
- ↑ Hesiod. The list of women, fr. 182 M.-W .; Euripides. Phoenician 825; Horace. Odes III 11, 1-3; Science of Poetry 394–396
- ↑ Pakuvia. Antiope, fr. 4, 7 Warmington = Cicero. About Divination II 133
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Hellas II 6, 4
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Hellas VI 20, 18
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Hellas IX 5, 6.9
- ↑ Hyginus. Myths 69
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodor. Mythological Library III 5, 6
- ↑ Ovid. Metamorphosis VI 271-272
- ↑ Hyginus. Myths 9
- ↑ Aristophanes. Birds 1247
- ↑ Pausanias. Description of Hellas IX 17, 4-5.7
- ↑ Plato. Gorgiy 485e
Links
- Amphion, in mythology // Encyclopedic dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.