Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Antiope.
The gallery
Theseus and Antiope (pedimental group from the Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros, Eretria)
Unknown Archaic sculptor, c. 510–500 BC
Archaic marble from Eretria: Theseus carries off the Amazon Antiope — the abduction that sparks Athens' Amazon war and, in many tellings, makes her the mother of Hippolytus. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Eretria.
Theseus and Antiope (metope of the Athenian Treasury at Delphi)
Unknown Archaic sculptor, c. 500 BC
Delphi, Athenian Treasury: Theseus and the Amazon Antiope locked in the struggle of her abduction. The metope is a flagship Archaic image of the Amazon consort, distinct from the Theban Antiope of Zeus.
The Abduction of Antiope by Theseus
Unknown (Attic or related classical relief), 5th century BC
A fifth-century relief (National Archaeological Museum, Athens) of Theseus seizing the Amazon Antiope — the war-bride whose capture opens the Amazonomachy in Athenian myth.