Amfion

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Amfion ha Zethos, izelvos, Palazzo Spada (Roma)
Amfion ha Zethos, izelvos, Palazzo Spada (Roma)

Amfion a oa mab da Zeus ha da Antiope, ha breur gevell Zetos, ha roue Tebai. Soner ha barzh e oa ivez.

Taolenn

[kemmañ] Ganedigezh

Gwallet e oa bet o mamm Antiope gant Zeus, ha hi tec'hel gant ar vezh da Sikion. Eno e timezas d'ar roue Epopeus. Arsailhet e voe sikion gant un arme eus tebai, renet gant Likos pe gant e vreur Nikteos, ha kaset e voe ar vaouez d'ar gêr da vout kastizet. Gwilioudiñ a reas war hent ar gêr, ha genel daou vab en ur c'hofad. Ret e voe dezhi diskouez anezho d'ar bobl war ar menez Kiteron, ma voe laosket ar vugale, ha kaset o mamm da Debai da vout sklavez gant ar rouanez Dirke.

[kemmañ] Bugaleaj

Hag ar vugale gaezh dilaosket war ar menez Kiteron gant o eontr kriz, Likos, roue Tebai. Kavet e voent gant mesaerien avat, ha desavet gante.

Meur a vloaz goude e tec'has Antiope hag ekavas he bugale war ar menez ma oant bet ganet.

Pa oa bet graet vil d'o mamm gant Dirke ez ejont d'he lazhañ: staget e voe gante etre kerniel un tarv.

Sevel a rejont un arme hag aloubiñ Tebai.

Goude e voe savet mogerioù kêr Tebai gante, pep hini en e zoare.


[kemmañ] Soner

Donet a reas Amfion da vout ur barzh hag ur soner ken barrek hag Orfeus. Hennezh all a ouie sachañ al loened war e lerc'h, Amfion a c'halle lakaat ar vein da fiñval. Desket e oa bet gant an doue Hermes da seniñ fleut ha lirenn.

[kemmañ] Gwreg ha bugale

Digant Niobe, merc'h Tantal, roue Lydia, en doa meur a vugel, an Niobided a vez graet anezhe. Met brazoni a savas enni, ha kunujenniñ an doueez Leto a gredas ober.


[kemmañ] Rule of Thebes

Zethus became a hunter and herdsman, with a great interest in cattle breeding. They built the walls around the Cadmea, the citadel of Thebes. While Zethus struggled to carry his stones, Amphion played his lyre and his stones followed after him and gently glided into place.[1]

Because of this, he learned to play his lyre in the Lydian mode and added three strings to it.[2] Zethus married Thebe, after whom the city of Thebes was named.

[kemmañ] Later Misfortunes

Amphion's wife Niobe had many children, but had become arrogant and because of this she insulted the goddess who had only two, Artemis and Apollo. Leto's children killed Niobe's children in retaliation (see Niobe). In Ovid, Amphion kills himself out of grief; according to Telesilla, Artemis and Apollo kill him along with his children. Hyginus, however, writes that in his madness he tried to attack the temple of Apollo, was killed by the god's arrows.[3]

Zethus had only one son, who died through a mistake of his mother Thebe, causing Zethus to kill himself.[4] In the Odyssey, however, Zethus's wife is called a daughter of Pandareus in book 19, who killed her son Itylos in a fit of madness and became a nightingale.[5]

Afther the deaths of Amphion and Zethus, Laius returned to Thebes and became king.

Compare with Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri) of Greece, and with Romulus and Remus of Rome.