DIRKE The wife of Lykos of Thebes, who subjected Antiope to terrible cruelty, so that the mother of Amphion and Zethos had to flee to Mount Kithaeron, where she had left her children in the care of a herdsman. Arriving there, Antiope encountered Dirke, who ordered the two brothers to bind their mother to the horns of a bull, that it might tear her apart. However, recognising Antiope, Amphion and Zethos turned instead on Dirke, lashing her to the bull, on whose horns she died.