Amphilochus is presented as the son of the seer-king Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and the younger brother of Alcmaeon; he belongs to the generation of the Epigoni (the sons who avenged their fathers after the failed expedition of the Seven against Thebes). Sources summarized in the supplied material credit him with kingship in Argos in some accounts and with post-Trojan War settlement activity that led to the naming of Amphilochia and a second 'Amphilochian Argos'. Ancient authors cited in the tradition include Herodotus (for a foundation at Posideium) and geographical writers like Strabo for the attribution of place-names; other mythographic sources (e.g., summaries of Apollodorusic material) place him among the Epigoni and record variant traditions that sometimes assign certain foundations or death-stories instead to a nephew. The tradition thus records multiple, sometimes conflicting, attributions for his civic and cultic foundations.
The supplied sources do not provide a physical or iconographic description of Amphilochus. Ancient summaries and modern reference accounts focus on his genealogy, political and cultic acts (founder, king, seer), and contested death-stories rather than bodily features; therefore no reliable depiction or standard iconography is attested in the provided material.
Amphilochus is primarily attested as a heroic seer and founder. Multiple summaries credit him with a reputation for prophetic ability (a trait inherited from his father Amphiaraus) and with founding oracles — most prominently an oracle at Mallus in Cilicia and, in some traditions, the oracle of Apollo at Colophon in Lydia (the latter said to be founded jointly with his half-brother Mopsus). He is also credited in post-Trojan War settlement legends with establishing territory along the Ambracian Gulf known as Amphilochia and an 'Amphilochian Argos', and Herodotus is reported to attribute the establishment of Posideium on the Cilician border to him. Traditions conflict over his death: some say he was killed by Apollo, others that he and Mopsus killed one another; alternative accounts ascribe those events to a nephew, indicating variation across sources.
Amphictyonis
A local epithet of the goddess Demeter venerated at Anthela in the Thermopylae region of ancient Greece; Amphictyonis functioned as the cultic recipient of sacrifices by the Amphictyonic League and as a tutelary divine figure for the interstate religious assembly that met there.
Amphidamas
Amphidamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιδάμας) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal men in Greek mythic tradition. Various distinct figures called Amphidamas appear in genealogies, epic rosters (Argonauts, companions of Odysseus), and local king-lists rather than forming a single supernatural archetype.
Amphidocus
Amphidocus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίδοκος) is attested in classical sources as a son of Orchomenus of Minyan Orchomenus and brother to Clymenus and Aspledon. He appears in genealogical lists tying local eponyms and founders to a royal lineage in Boeotia; beyond this genealogy the sources provide no sustained myths, cult, or ritual around him.
Amphilestes
Amphilestes is a genus of extinct eutriconodont (triconodont-grade) mammal known from Middle Jurassic dental and mandibular remains from the Stonesfield Slate, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It was among the earliest Mesozoic mammals discovered and played a role in the nineteenth-century history of paleomammalogy.
Amphillogiai
Amphillogiai appears in modern compilations as a named feminine personification in the Greek mythological catalog of daimones. The supplied sources do not provide an ancient primary textual attestation, description, or ritual corpus for Amphillogiai; its classification rests on modern reference listings and analogy with other Greek personified abstractions.
Amphilochus
Amphilochus (Amphilochos, Amphílokhos) is a classical Greek personal name attested for multiple mythological figures; in modern usage the name also labels a genus of amphipod crustaceans and a Jovian asteroid. The provided sources do not supply narrative details, supernatural attributes, or ritual material for any specific mythological figure named Amphilochus.
Amphilogiai
The Amphilogiai (Amphilogiae) are female daimones in Greek myth who personify disputes and altercations. They are listed among the many personified negative conditions produced by the goddess Eris and function mainly as literary explanations for quarrels rather than well-attested cult figures.
Amphimachus
Amphimachus (Ancient Greek Ἀμφίμαχος) is an ancient Greek personal name borne by several mythological mortals — warriors, princes, kings, and suitors — attested across epic and genealogical traditions of the heroic age rather than a single supernatural entity. The name, derived from ἀμφί (amphi) 'around' and μάχη (machē) 'battle', marks a martial character and recurs in Homeric, mythographic, and local genealogical accounts.
Amphimachus I of Elis
Amphimachus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίμαχος) of Elis is a mortal heroic leader in the Homeric and later mythographic tradition. He is named as one of the Epeian captains who brought ships to the Trojan War and is slain in battle by Hector in the Iliad; his identity is chiefly genealogical and martial, tied to Elis and its local aristocratic networks.
Amphimachus of Caria
A mortal Homeric leader: son of Nomion and co-captain (with his brother Nastes) of the Carian contingent allied with Troy in the Trojan War tradition. Attested in Homeric catalogue material and later commentary; sources record a variant tradition in which one of Nomion's sons was slain and stripped of gold by Achilles, with disagreement over whether that was Amphimachus or Nastes.
Amphimedon
In Homer's Odyssey, Amphimedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιμέδων) is an Ithacan, son of Melaneus, one of the suitors of Penelope who fights in Odysseus's hall, is killed during the slaughter of the suitors, and (within the Homeric narrative) later appears among the dead in the Underworld to recount the events of that slaughter. The same name is also used in modern biological taxonomy for a genus of sponges; that referent is distinct.
Amphinome
Amphinome is an ancient Greek proper name attested for multiple distinct female figures in myth — chiefly a Nereid (sea-nymph) and several mortal women (including a wife of Aeson and one of the Peliades). The name is also reused in modern taxonomic and creative contexts (annelid genus, butterfly species, and contemporary fantasy), but these are later reuses rather than continuations of a single mythic being.
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- [1]Amphilochus I of Argos (Wikipedia summary). Wikipedia: Amphilochus I of Argoswiki
- [2]Eriphyle (Wikipedia summary). Wikipedia: Eriphyle (for family context)wiki
- [3]Herodotus (as cited in summaries) / foundation traditions. Strabo cited in supplied notes (geographical attributions related to Amphilochia and colonies); Herodotus attribution to Posideium noted in the summaryliterary
- [4]The Odyssey, Homer (digitized editions listed in notes). Homeric epic context and secondary references listed among supplied sourcesliterary