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Team MZ's first strategy meeting of the new year

#hope art #pokemon legends za #team MZ #taunie #naveen #lida #dirce #AZ pokemon #eternal flower floette #deathless bloom yamask (yamAZk au)#I don't know how to use screen tones so sorry if it looks messy in that regard 💔

the versions of dirce being helios daughter are kinda funny cuz it just deadass sounds like bro ran out of names and just gave this kid circes name with one letter switched.

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Greek Anthology: Book 3 THE CYZICENE EPIGRAMS

The implication that Lycus raped or attempted to rape Antiope makes so much sense, not only is she his slave and therefore he can do whatever he wants to her, but it also explains why Dirce hated her so much.

#this is why I prefer the version where Amphion and Zethus kill Lycus fuck that bitch #hey remember when ppl compared Athena and Medusa to white female slave owners who hated their female slaves for getting raped?#crazy how ppl bullshit like that when Dirce and Antiope exists and that comparison would’ve worked way better with them #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #Dirce #Antiope #Amphion #Zethus #Amphion and Zethus #Lycus

Christian Dirce by Henryk Siemiradzki

From the Malalas Chronography:

So after the death of Cadmus, the King of Boeotia, Nycteus was king. He had a daughter, the priestess of the temple of the Sun, named Antiope. She was taught the solar prayer, or mystagogy of the Dionysiac Bacchanalia, and from that was called Bacche. Her father Nycteus had a brother named Lycus, the king of Argos. This King Lycus had a senator named Theoboos, the son of some Bronton, cousin of Dirce, of the race of Picus Zeus. Theoboos the senator came from Argos by order to sleep in the sanctuary of the Sun. Seeing the priestess Antiope, who was very beautiful and tall, he fell in love with her.

He remained in the sanctuary, on the pretext of a vow, as her relative, seduced her, and made her pregnant. Afraid of Nycteus, the King of Boeotia, he left to his own country. When King Nycteus her father learned that she had been debauched, he took her from the sanctuary. Questioning her, he learned from her that her debaucher was Theoboos, that he was a senator of his brother Lycus and of his wife’s race. Nycteus her father did not know that she was pregnant, and sent her to his brother Lycus, King of Argos, so he too could examine the matter of her debauchery, and if it was true that the debaucher was from Argos, he would punish her as a debauched priestess, and would guard himself against that one, as the sort of person who dared such things against a priestly body. King Lycus brought Antiope in for questioning and saw her beauty. Learning that she was pregnant, he took pity on her, and said it was necessary to wait until she gave birth and then she would be punished for doing violence to her priestly uniform. Lycus’ wife was Dirce, and he gave Antiope to her, telling her to guard her next to herself until she gave birth. King Lycus was Antiope’s uncle. Antiope gave birth to twins, who were called Amphion and Zethus.

At the command of King Lycus, the newborns were thrown away in the village Rasthea near the Cithaeronian mountain. Out of pity, a farmer named Ordion, who was childless, took the babies from the throwers. He recognized that the children were the priestess Antiope’s. For he knew her as a priestess. He raised them. After a time, war stirred for the Argive country, and King Lycus went off to the war. He stayed a long time fighting. Dirce the wife of King Lycus assumed from the fact that he had not yet punished Antiope after the birth, but had let her go, that he was in love with her and having sex with her secretly, since she was very beautiful. Taking her, with a few soldiers, as if to the country, she went to Mt. Cithaeron to the village where her sons had been raised. Dirce didn’t know this. So she took from the place a wild bull, and affixed a torch to its horns. She commanded that Antiope be tied up, and the rope wrapped around the bull’s neck, so that Antiope would be dragged by the bull and killed. When everyone from the estate heard about the death awaiting Antiope, and heard her shrieks, they came from the Dera Goddess, as the place was called. There were many rustics there in the crowd, and likewise the two sons of Antiope with them, along with Ordion the farmer who raised them. They begged Dirce not to kill her with such a death. She spoke out to them that she was a priestess of the Sun, and had been debauched and had born two children in harlotry, and it was necessary for her to be punished. The sons of Antiope, Zethus and Amphion, heard from Ordion, who had raised them, that it was there mother who was about to be punished, Antiope. They gathered all the rural population and attacked together. They killed the soldiers, captured Dirce, took the royal ornaments she was wearing, and freed Antiope. Released from her bonds, Antiope permitted her sons Amphion and Zethus to kill Dirce. So they took Dirce and tied her to the same wild bull. Dragged by the bull, she died. Thirsty from being driven, the bull found a spring to drink at. The rope was cut and the corpse of Dirce was left by the spring. So this spring, from that, has been called Dirce until now in that country. Zethus and Amphion took their mother Antiope and left for their country, Boeotia. When they appeared there, they were recognized by the Boeotians. Their grandfather Nycteus, the king of Boeotia, had grown old, fallen ill, and died.

So after the death of King Nycteus, all the Boeotians asked Amphion and Zethus to be king, since they were of the royal lineage of Nycteus. They were proclaimed kings, and the musicians Amphion and Zethus ruled the Boeotian country. Immediately Amphion the lyre-player built a very large city with twelve gates, where there had previously been a village Enchelia. The brothers named the city Thebes for the name of their father, at the command of their mother Antiope. They reigned many years over the Thebes. So the land was called Thebes. King Lycus, the husband of Dirce, their uncle, died in the war. Cephalion wrote this truthfully. The very wise Euripides poetically published a play, that Zeus as a Satyr debauched Antiope, and from that the musicians Zethus and Amphion were born. In accordance with the change of metempsychosis (reincarnation), he said their father Theoboos was descended from Picus Zeus, because Zeus transformed into a Satyr, which in the Boeotian language is another, more worthless body, debauched Antiope. After the reign of Amphion and Zethus, those of their lineage were kings of Thebes until the reign of Oedipus, son of Laius and Jocasta.

While not much different than the classical myth (at least compared to others...), I find it interesting that here Antiope is a priestess. The way Amphion and Zethus figured out how is Antiope their mother also makes much more sense in this context. Also, fuck Theoboos!

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