Pausanias, Description of Greece, ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy, 2.6.4

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[4] On this matter Asios the son of Amphiptolemos says in his poem:

Zethus and Amphion had Antiope for their mother,
Daughter of Asopos, the swift, deep-eddying river,
Having conceived of Zeus and Epopeus, shepherd of peoples.

Homer traces their descent to the more august side of their family, and says that they were the first founders of Thebes, in my opinion distinguishing the lower city from the Kadmeia.

Description of Greece. Pausanias. ed. W. H. S. Jones, ed. H. A. Ormerod, ed. Gregory Nagy. . .

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Ἑλλάδος Περιηγήσεως Perseus (Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae descriptio, Volumes 1-3. Spiro, Friedrich, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.) — 2.6.4 focus

[4] καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ πεποίηκεν Ἄσιος ὁ Ἀμφιπτολέμου· 0

Ἀντιόπη δʼ ἔτεκε Ζῆθον καὶ Ἀμφίονα δῖον

Ἀσωποῦ κούρη ποταμοῦ βαθυδινήεντος,

Ζηνί τε κυσαμένη καὶ Ἐπωπέι ποιμένι λαῶν.

Asius, unknown work Ὅμηρος δὲ σφᾶς ἀνήγαγεν ἐπὶ τὸ σεμνότερον τοῦ γένους καὶ Θήβας φησὶν οἰκίσαι πρώτους, ἀποκρίνων τὴν κάτω πόλιν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς Καδμείας.

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Description of Greece Perseus (Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece, Volumes 1-4. Jones, W.H.S. (William Henry Samuel), translator; Ormerod, Henry Arderne, translator. London, New York: W. Heinemann, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918-1935.) — 2.6.4 focus

[4] On this matter Asius the son of Amphiptolemus¹ says in his poem:—

Zethus and Amphion had Antiope for their mother,

Daughter of Asopus, the swift, deep-eddying river,

Having conceived of Zeus and Epopeus, shepherd of peoples.

Asius, unknown work Homer traces their descent to the more august side of their family, and says that they were the first founders of Thebes , in my opinion distinguishing the lower city from the Cadmea.

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