Greek mythological character
InGreek mythology,Amyclas (Ancient Greek:Ἀμύκλας,romanized: Amýklas) orAmyclus was a king ofSparta and the founder ofAmyclae in centralLaconia.
Amyclas was the son of KingLacedemon and QueenSparta, and brother of QueenEurydice ofArgos. He was the father ofArgalus,[1]Cynortas,[2]Hyacinth,[3]Laodamia[4] (orLeaneira[5]),Harpalus,[6]Hegesandre[7] and possibly ofPolyboea.[8] In other versions of the myth, Amyclas was also called the father ofDaphne.[9]
- ^Pausanias,3.1.3
- ^Apollodorus,1.9.5 &3.10.3; Pausanias,3.1.3 &3.13.1
- ^Apollodorus,3.10.3; Pausanias,3.1.3
- ^Pausanias,10.9.5
- ^Apollodorus,3.9.1
- ^Pausanias,7.18.5 (Achaica)
- ^Scholia adHomer,Odyssey4.10 &22;Pherecydes, fr. 132 [=Fowler (2013), vol. 1, p. 345 & vol. 2, p. 438]
- ^Pausanias,3.19.4
- ^Parthenius,15 from the elegiac poems of Diodorus of Elaea and the 25th book ofPhylarchus
- Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Parthenius,Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882–1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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