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Amphion

[ am-fahy-uhn, am-fee- ]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Antiope by Zeus, and the husband of Niobe. With his twin brother, Zethus, he built the walls of Thebes, charming the stones into place with his lyre.


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Other Word Forms

  • ··Dz· [am-fahy-, on, -ik, -fee-], adjective
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A princess of Thebes, Antiope, bore two sons to Zeus, Zethus and Amphion.

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Amphion’s story, and Niobe’s, I have taken from Ovid, who alone tells them in full.

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Her husband was Amphion, a son of Zeus and an incomparable musician.

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Mr. Melsky said the Amphion Foundation and the Copland Foundation “expedited their ‘general operating’ money payouts to be emergency payouts, which just means that everybody that is a current grantee will get a check earlier, with a much simpler platform for requests.”

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“The sea? We could sail a leviathan, and set it free. The amphion fields of Thanagost? Warlords and leashed wolves and drifting ulola blossoms like fleets of living bubbles. Or the Cloudspire. We might climb it and steal emeralds from the eyes of the sarcophagi, like Calixte. Do you fancy becoming a jewel thief, my lady?”

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