Amphidamas (Tegea)
Amphidamas ( Greek Ἀμφιδάμας ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
He is the son of the Nemean King Lycurgus and Kleophile or Euronyme. According to the library of Apollodorus , he was the father of Meilanion and the Antimache (or Admete ) who married Eurystheus .
According to a Scholion for the Iliad , which refers to Hesiod , Amphidamas was the grandfather of Eurystheus through a daughter Artibia (or Antibia). According to others, he is the son of the son of Zeus Arkas and father of either Aleos or Lycurgus. In Pausanias finally and Apollonius Rhodius Amphidamas is the son of Aleos and brother of Lycurgus, of Cepheus and the eye . In this context he is also a participant in the Argonaut procession , a version that has also been handed down to Hyginus .
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 9, 2; see also the inscription CIG 5984 (on a relief in the Villa Albani ), where the daughter is called Admete (Admata).
- ↑ Scholion to Homer , Iliad 19:116.
- ↑ Scholion to Homer, Iliad 2, 603.
- ↑ Scholion to Homer, Iliad 2, 609.
- ^ Pausanias 8: 4, 6.
- ↑ Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika 1, 161 ff.
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 14; there his mother is called Cleobule.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Amphidamas 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 303 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Amphidamas 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 1898 f.