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Dirce

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The wife of Lycus, king of Thebes, who for her cruelty to Antiope, her divorced predecessor, was, by Antiope's two sons, Zethos and Amphion, tied to a wild bull and dragged to death, after which her carcass was flung by them into a well; the subject is represented in a famous antique group by Apollonius and Tauriscus.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dirce'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dirce.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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