Antiope (Amazon)

This article is about the Amazon. For other mythological Antiopes, see Antiope (Greek myth).
Theseus carries Antiope off, from the pediment of Apollo's temple at Eretria, 500s BC.

In Greek mythology, Antiope (/ænˈtaɪəpi/; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη, derived from αντι anti, "against, compared to, like," and οψ ops, "voice" or "confronting"[1]) was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyta, Penthesilea and possibly Orithyia, queens of the Amazons.[2] Two sisters, Orithyia and Antiope, co-ruled the Amazons.[3] Antiope may have been the wife of Theseus and mother to his son Hippolytus of Athens, but differing sources claim this was Hippolyta.[4]

  1. ^ Robert Graves (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth, London, England: Penguin Books. pp. s.v. Antiope. ISBN 978-0143106715.
  2. ^ Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos, I. 15.8-9
  3. ^ Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos,I. 15.8-10
  4. ^ Leeming, David (2005). The Oxford Companion to World Mythology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195156690 – via Oxford Reference Online. According to some sources, either Antiope or Hippolyta was the mother, by Theseus, of the tragic Hippolytus.