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Amphion

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Am·phi·on  (m-fn)
n. Greek Mythology
The son of Zeus and the twin brother of Zethus, with whom he built a wall around Thebes by charming the stones into place with the music of his magical lyre.


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Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
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Orpheus and Amphion went a little farther, and by the charms of music enchanted things merely inanimate.
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2: Hesiod says that (the children of Amphion and Niobe) were ten sons and ten daughters.
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