What is "antiope"

Antiope was a French teletext standard in the 1980s. It also formed the basis for the display standard used in the French videotex service Minitel.

The term allegedly stood for Acquisition Numérique et Télévisualisation d’Images Organisées en Pages d’Écriture, which could be loosely translated as Digital Acquisition and Remote Visualization of Images Organized into Written Pages. Work on Antiope started in 1972 at CCETT, the newly merged French national research centre for television and telecommunications in Rennes, with first field trials in 1975. The system was officially launched in 1976 at Vidcom in Cannes, and simultaneously at the СПОРТ 76 exposition in Moscow.

Antiope ceased to be used for broadcast teletext in the early 1990s, before teletext became popular in France. It was replaced by European standard World System Teletext. However, the Antiope-derived Minitel continues in use to the present day.

In Greek mythology, Antiope (; ) was the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer; in later sources she is called the daughter of the "nocturnal" king Nycteus of Thebes or, in the Cypria, of Lycurgus, but for Homer her site is purely Boeotian. She was the mother of Amphion and Zethus.

Antiope can mean:

• Greek mythology
  • Antiope (Amazon), sister of Hippolyte kidnapped by Theseus, during Heracles' ninth labour
  • Antiope (mother of Amphion) by Zeus, associated with the mythology of Thebes, Greece
  • Antiope, daughter of Thespius who bore Heracles a son, Alopius
  • Antiope, nymph of Pieria, the mother, by Pierus, of the Pierides, nine sisters who challenged the muses and, on their defeat, were turned into birds
  • Antiope, a consort of Helios and possible mother of Aeetes and Aloeus
  • Antiope, daughter of Pylon, wife of Eurytus
  • Antiope, wife of Laocoon
  • Antiope, a daughter of Aeolus, by whom Poseidon begot Boeotus and Hellen
• Other uses
  • Antiope, a fragmentary play by Euripides
  • Antiope, a painting by Titian
  • Antiope (comics), from the fictional DC Comics universe
  • Antiope Reef, a coral reef northeast of Niue
  • 90 Antiope, a double asteroid
  • Antiope (teletext), a now-abandoned teletext system

  • , a Panamanian cargo ship in service 1948-64

In Greek mythology, Antiope (; ) was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe, Hippolyte and possibly Orithyia, queens of the Amazons,. She was the wife of Theseus, and the only Amazon known to have married. There are various accounts of the manner in which Theseus became possessed of her, and of her subsequent fortunes.

In one version, during Heracles' ninth labor, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyte, when he captured the Amazons' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home (or she was captured by Heracles and then given by him to Theseus). According to Pausanias, Antiope fell in love with Theseus and betrayed the Amazons of her own free will. They were eventually married and she gave birth to a son, Hippolytus, who was named after Antiope's sister. Soon after, the Amazons attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antiope and to take back Hippolyte's girdle; however, in a battle near the hill of Ares they were defeated. During this conflict, known as the Attic War, Antiope was accidentally shot dead by an Amazon named Molpadia, who, in her turn, was then killed by Theseus. Tombs of both Antiope and Molpadia were shown in Athens.

According to some sources, the cause for the Amazons' attack on Athens was the fact that Theseus had abandoned Antiope and planned to marry Phaedra. Antiope was furious about this and decided to attack them on their wedding day. She promised to kill every person in attendance; however, she was slain instead by Theseus himself, fulfilling an oracle's prophecy to that effect. Ovid mentions that Theseus killed Antiope despite the fact that she was pregnant.

An alternate version of the myth relates all of the facts concerning Antiope (abduction by Theseus, their marriage, birth of Hippolytus, her being left behind in favour of Phaedra) not of her, but of Hippolyte. In various accounts of this version, the subsequent attack on Athens either does not occur at all or is led by Orithyia.

In Giovanni Boccaccio's Famous Women, a chapter is dedicated to Antiope and Orithyia.

General Antiope, is a DC Comics character based on the mythological Amazon Antiope. In the comics, she is the Amazon sister of Queen Hippolyta, and aunt to Wonder Woman. She is the founding member of the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall, whom they worship as a sacred ancestor.