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• Amphion,son of Zeus
  Zeus
  
  Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
   and Antiope
  Antiope (mother of Amphion)
  
  In Greek mythology, Antiope was the name of the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer; in later poems she is called the daughter of the "nocturnal" king Nycteus of Thebes, Greece or, in the Cypria, of Lycurgus, but for Homer her suites is purely Boeotian....
  , and twin brother of Zethus (see Amphion and Zethus
  Amphion and Zethus
  
  Amphion and Zethus , in ancient Greek mythology, were the twin sons of Zeus by Antiope . They are important characters in one of the two founding myths of the city of Thebes, Greece, because they constructed the city's walls....
  ). Together they are famous for building Thebes. Amphion married Niobe
  Niobe
  
  Niobe was the daughter of the semi-legendary ruler Tantalus, called the "Phrygian" and sometimes even as "King of Phrygia" . Although Tantalus ruled in Sipylus, a city located in the western extremity of Anatolia where Lydia was to emerge as a state as of the 8th century BC, and not in the traditional heartland of Phrygia, situated more in...
  , and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (the Niobids
  Niobids
  
  In Greek mythology, the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes, Greece and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia, had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis' mother....
  ) at the hands of Apollo
  Apollo
  
  In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
   and Artemis
  Artemis
  
  In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
  . One of his surviving children was the daughter now renamed as Chloris
  Chloris
  
  There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris . Some clearly refer to different characters; other stories may refer to the same Chloris, but disagree on details....
  . However, other accounts (including Homer
  Homer
  
  Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
  , in the Odyssey
  Odyssey
  
  The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization epic poetrys attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer....
  ) claim that Chloris was a daughter of another Amphion, ruler of Minyan Orchomenus (see below).
• Amphion, son of Iasus and Persephone (a mortal woman, not the wife of Hades
  Hades
  
  Hades refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive case , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades"....
  ). This Amphion is an obscure character, said to be a king of the Minyans
  Minyans
  
  According to Greek mythology, the Minyans were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples is subject to repeated revision....
   of Orchomenus
  Orchomenus
  
  Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:...
  , in Boeotia
  Boeotia
  
  Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
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• Amphion, son of Hyperasius and Hypso, an Argonaut
  Argonaut
  
  Argonaut may refer to:* Argonaut , a kind of octopus in the genus Argonauta* Jason and the Argonauts, sailors in Greek mythology* Argonauts of Saint Nicholas, a military order in Naples...
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• Amphion the Epean, who took part in the Trojan War
  Trojan War
  
  In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
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Popular culture

• Amphion is also the name of a well known progressive rock group from the early to mid 1990's. They released 3 CDs and one of the members went solo and released 3 more.