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The twins Amphion 1 and
Zethus, to avenge their mother and seize power at
Thebes, tied Dirce to a bull
to be dragged by the beast to death. When she was dead, they
cast her dead body into the spring which is called after
her. The woman standing behind the bull is Antiope 3, mother
by Zeus of the twins [read the
story at Amphion 1].
The sculpture is a copy from the 3rd. century AD of a
Hellenistic work.
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