"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. These founded Thebes with its seven gates, and built a wall all round it; for strong though they were they could not hold Thebes till they had walled it.
Zethus is a sorcerer and self-described spiritual thug for hire.
FIRST REPORT OF
ZETHUS SCHADEI (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE) AS NATURAL ENEMY OF HYPSIPYLA GRANDELLA ZELLER (LEPIDOPTERA: PYRALIDAE) FROM COLOMBIA
She says that she is like the nightingale Aedon, who pours forth a swiftly modulating cry, "mourning her dear son Itylus, whom once with the bronze she killed unwittingly, the son of her lord
Zethus." In this version of the nightingale myth, Aedon kills her son by mistake, when she is actually trying to eliminate Niobe's eldest son, who is Itylus's cousin and rival.
Type Species:
Zethus rufofemoratus Cameron, 1903, by original designation.
2 Vespidae Agelaia multipicta 6 2 1 5 Brachygastra lechegiiana 1 Polybia ignobilis 1 Polybia sericea 2 Polybia scuttellaris 6
Zethus sp.
The original, discovered in the Baths of Caracalla in 1546, illustrates the story of
Zethus and Amphion, the twin builders of Thebes, who tied their stepmother Dirce to the horns of a wild bull to punish her for tormenting their mother Antiope.
Max Lifchitz has given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Zethus Fund for Contemporary Music.
The infants were exposed, but a neatherd found and reared them, and he called the one
Zethus and the other Amphion." (Transl.
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