Dirce
Sign in to savethumb|The punishment of Dirce on a Lucanian vase painting|Lucanian red-figure [[pelike from Policoro (ancient Herakleia), BCE]] Dirce (; , , modern Greek ,) was a queen of Thebes as the wife of Lycus in Greek mythology.
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thumb|The punishment of Dirce on a Lucanian vase painting|Lucanian red-figure [[pelike from Policoro (ancient Herakleia), BCE]] Dirce (; , , modern Greek ,) was a queen of Thebes as the wife of Lycus in Greek mythology.
== Family == Dirce was a daughter of the river-gods Achelous or Ismenus, or of Helios.
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