Amphidamas

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Amphidamas may refer to both historical and mythological figures in ancient Greece :

[edit] Mythology

Amphidamas is the name of six men in Greek mythology.

1. Amphidamas, son of Aleus and Cleobule. He was one of the Argonauts, along with his brother Cepheus.[1]

2. Amphidamas, father of Nausidame. Nausidame bore Helios a son, Augeas.[2]

3. Amphidamas, son of Lycurgus by either Cleophyle or Eurynome. Amphidamas had two children: Melanion and Antimache, who married Eurystheus.[3]

4. Amphidamas, son of Busiris, king of Egypt. He was killed, alongside his father, by Heracles.[4]

5. Amphidamas, father of Clitonymus, who was killed by Patroclus over a game of dice[5]

6. Amphidamas, one of the men hidden in the Trojan horse.

[edit] History

  • Amphidamas is the name of an historical king of Chalcis, death, about 730 b.C., after Lelantine War, whose burial ceremony being associated with the poetic agon mentioned by Hesiod.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14 [1]
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14 [2]
  3. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.9.2 [3]
  4. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 2.5.11 [4]
  5. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.13.8 [5]
  6. ^ Hesiod. Works and Days, 654.