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DIRCE , in Greek legend, daughter of Helios the sun-god, the second wife of Lycus, king of Thebes. She sorely persecuted Antiope, his first wife, who escaped to Mount
Cithaeron
mother
bull , which dragged her about till she died. Her body
spring near Thebes, which was ever after-wards called by her name. Her punishment is the subject of the famous group called " The Farnese Bull ," by Apollonius and Tauriscus of Tralles
Plate
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