At the Dionysian Mysteries, people tilt and sway in the darkness with torches. They stare blankly and dance to the beat of drums. Drunken staggers walked in the so-called Dionysus gait. Drinks laced with honey and hallucinogenic drugs made the participants abandon themselves in a trance, dancing wildly and shouting, “Euoi!” ...

Antiope
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Nycteus had two daughters. The elder daughter, Nycteis (Ancient Greek: Νυκτηίς), meaning “daughter of night,” married Polydorus (Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος), king of Thebes. The youngest daughter, Antiope (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόπη), grew to be a flowery and alluring woman. Legend has it that even standing on Mount Olympus, she was no less beautiful than the goddesses. How can the beauty of the human world escape the eyes of the king of the gods?

Antiope - Regent
Transformed into a satyr, Zeus raped Antiope and made her pregnant. Fearing the wrath of her father, Nycteus, the pregnant Antiope fled to Sicyon (Greek: Σικυών; gen.: Σικυῶνος). Her beauty attracted Epopeus (Ancient Greek: Ἐπωπεύς, Romanized: Epōpeús), the king of Sicyon. The name means “all-seer.” He married Antiope.
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Antiope - Twins’ Revenge

To fulfill the last wish of Nycteus, Lycus led the Thebans into another war and eventually brought back Antiope. On the way back to Thebes, on Mount Cithaeron (or Kithairon; Greek: Κιθαιρών, -ῶνος) near Eleutherae, Antiope gave birth to twins Amphion (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, Romanized: Amphīōn) and Zethus (Ancient Greek: Ζ ῆθος Zēthos), According to the orthodox version of ancient Greek mythology, Amphion was the son conceived by Antiope and Zeus, and Zethus was the son conceived by Antiope and Epopeus. Lycus abandoned the babies, his two nephews, on Mount Cithaeron. The twins were later adopted by a herdsman.

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Hidden Secrets
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That brings up the first question: Antiope became pregnant after her adultery with Zeus, married Epopeus, and waited until Lycus brought her back, as little as five or six years, as much as a decade or more, and in some records, more than twenty years. In between, she bore two more children to Epopeus. So how could the child she gave birth to on her way back to Thebes be the seed of Zeus?

After Lycus brought his brother’s daughter, his own niece Antiope, back to Thebes, how could Lycus’ wife, Dirce (ancient Greek: Δίρκη), hate Antiope with a passion? To persecute a woman who had long ago become an adult and had no conflict of interest with herself? That brings us to the second question: what did Dirce hate so much about Antiope that she had to imprison and brutally torture her?
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Gods Are the Scapegoats
Hakuin Ekaku (Japanese: 白隠 慧鶴; Katakana: はくいんえかく; January 19, 1686 — January 18, 1769) was a Zen master in Japanese Buddhism. His common name was Iwajiro Nagasawa, and he was born in Harajuku, Suruga Kuni (present-day Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture), Japan. Hakuin Ekaku revolutionized the Rinzai school (Japanese: 臨済宗, romanized: Rinzai-shū), and integrated meditation and koan practice.
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Dionysian Mysteries
Arthur Bernard Cook (October 22, 1868 — April 26, 1952) was an English archaeologist and classical scholar. He is best known for Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion. He argued that the rape of Antiope by Zeus “took on a Dionysiac colouring, Antiope being represented as a Maenad and Zeus as a Satyr.”
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Arno Will, December 19–21, 2023. revised October 3,October 23, 2024

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