Amphilochus (son of Dryas)

Amphilochus ( Greek  Ἀμφίλοχος ), the son of Dryas , was in Greek mythology the husband of Alkinoë , the daughter of Polybos . With her he fathered a child. Alkinoë cheated on the Sami Xanthos and finally sailed away with him. When she thought of her child and her husband, realizing that she had made a mistake, she plunged into the waters and drowned.

swell

• Parthenios of Nicaea , Liebesleiden , 27 ( online ).

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Amphilochus 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 306 ( digitized version ).