Amphilochus (son of Alkmaion)

Amphilochus (Ἀμφίλοχος), the son of Alkmaion and the Manto , was a figure in Greek mythology . After Alkmaion killed his mother Eriphyle , he was struck insane. Therefore he gave Amphilochus and his sister Tisiphon to Creon , king of Corinth , and his wife Eurydice.

Later, when his father lived in Acarnania , Amphilochus returned to him and founded the city of Argos Amphilochikon on the Ambracian Gulf . He is considered the progenitor of the Amphilochians. Another tradition ascribes this merit to his father's brother Amphilochus .

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• Strabon , Geographica , 271; 326; 462; 642.
• Thucydides , The History of the Peloponnesian War , 2, 68.
• Pausanias , Travel in Greece , 2, 18, 4 - 5.

literature

• Erich Bethe : Amphilochus 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1940.