Amyclas
InGreek mythology,Amyclas(Ancient Greek:Ἀμύκλας) refers to two individuals:
- Amyclas,a mythical king ofSparta.[1]
- Amyclas, aThebanprince as the son of KingAmphionandNiobe,daughter ofTantalus.[2]He perished with his brothers and sisters in the massacre ofNiobids.In other versions, however, he was presented as the only surviving male (with his sisterChloris). WhenLaiusthe rightful king of Thebes returned, he was exiled, fleeing toSparta,where some say he founded Amyclae.
There is also an Amyclas in Roman epic:
- InLucan'sPharsalia(Book V), Caesar knocks on the door of a poor fisherman named Amyclas as he looks to cross the Adriatic.Dantementions this scene inParadiso,Canto XI.68.
Notes
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- ^Pausanias,10.9.5
- ^Apollodorus,3.5.6
References
[edit]- Apollodorus,The Librarywith 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.
- M. Annaeus Lucanus.The Civil War; The Pharsalia of Lucan.Translated bySir Edward Ridley.Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905.Online version available
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith 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.ISBN0-674-99328-4.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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