A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Androclea
ANDROCLEA,
Celebrated for her love to her country, was a native of Thebes in Bœotia. That state was at war with the Orchomenians, and the oracle declared that they would be victors if the most noble among them would suffer a voluntary death. Antiopoenus, father of Androclea, the most illustrious person in Thebes, was not disposed to sacrifice himself. Androclea and her sister Alcis fulfilled this duty in their father|s stead; and the grateful Thebans erected the statue of a lion to their memory in the temple of Diana.