Amyclas of Sparta

Not to be confused with Amyclae.
For other uses, see Amyclas.

In Greek mythology, Amyclas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύκλας, romanized: Amýklas) or Amyclus was a king of Sparta and the son of Lacedaemon. The town of Amyclae in Laconia was said to have been founded by and named after him.[1]

Genealogy

Amyclas was the son of King Lacedemon and Queen Sparta, and brother of Queen Eurydice of Argos. He was the father of Argalus,[2] Cynortas,[3] Hyacinth,[4] Laodamia[5] (or Leaneira[6]), Harpalus,[7] and Hegesandre.[8] In other versions of the myth, Amyclas was also called the father of Daphne.[9] Cynortas was the son who succeeded Amyclas on the throne; in some versions Cynortas ascends to power directly after his father, and in others he does so after Argalus, his elder brother, dies.[10]

Notes

  1. ^ Hard, pp. 155, 524.
  2. ^ Pausanias, 3.1.3
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3 & 3.13.1
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
  5. ^ Pausanias, 10.9.5
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.1
  7. ^ Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
  8. ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 4.10 & 22; Pherecydes, fr. 132 [=Fowler (2013), vol. 1, p. 345 & vol. 2, p. 438]
  9. ^ Parthenius, 15 from the elegiac poems of Diodorus of Elaea and the 25th book of Phylarchus
  10. ^ Hard, p. 524.

References

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  • Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", London and New York, Routledge, 2004. ISBN 020344633X. doi:10.4324/9780203446331.
  • 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.
  • Works related to Amyclas at Wikisource
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