_Polydorus_ married _Nycteis_, the daughter of _Nycteus_ a native of _Greece_, and dying young, left his Kingdom and young son _Labdacus_ under the administration of _Nycteus_. Then _Epopeus_ King of _Ægialus_, afterwards called _Sicyon_, stole _Antiope_ the daughter of _Nycteus_, [132] and _Nycteus_ thereupon made war upon him, and in a battle wherein _Nycteus_ overcame, both were wounded and died soon after. _Nycteus_ left the tuition of _Labdacus_, and administration of the Kingdom, to his brother _Lycus_; and _Epopeus_ or, as _Hyginus_ [133] calls him, _Epaphus_ the _Sicyonian_, left his Kingdom to _Lamedon_, who presently ended the war, by sending home _Antiope_: and she, in returning home, brought forth _Amphion_ and _Zethus_. _Labdacus_ being grown up received the Kingdom from _Lycus_, and soon after dying left it again to his administration, for his young son _Laius_. When _Amphion_ and _Zethus_ were about twenty years old, at the instigation of their mother _Antiope_, they killed _Lycus_, and made _Laius_ flee to _Pelops_, and seized the city _Thebes_, and compassed it with a wall; and _Amphion_ married _Niobe_ the sister of _Pelops_, and by her had several children, amongst whom was _Chloris_, the mother of _Periclymenus_ the _Argonaut_. _Pelops_ was the father of _Plisthenes_, _Atreus_, and _Thyestes_; and _Agamemnon_ and _Menelaus_, the adopted sons of _Atreus_, warred at _Troy_. _Ægisthus_, the son of _Thyestes_, slew _Agamemnon_ the year after the taking of _Troy_; and _Atreus_ died just before _Paris_ stole _Helena_, which, according to [134] _Homer_, was twenty years before the taking of _Troy_. _Deucalion_ the son of _Minos_, [135] was an _Argonaut_; and _Talus_ another son of _Minos_, was slain by the _Argonauts_; and _Idomeneus_ and _Meriones_ the grandsons of _Minos_ were at the _Trojan_ war. All these things confirm the ages of _Cadmus_ and _Europa_, and their posterity, above assigned, and place the death of _Epopeus_ or _Epaphus_ King of _Sicyon_, and birth of _Amphion_ and _Zethus_, upon the tenth year of _Solomon_; and the taking of _Thebes_ by _Amphion_ and _Zethus_, and the flight of _Laius_ to _Pelops_, upon the thirtieth year of that King, or thereabout. _Amphion_ might marry the sister of _Pelops_, the same year, and _Pelops_ come into _Greece_ three or four years before that flight, or about the 26th year of _Solomon_. [Sidenode p: Hygin. Fab. 14.]