Amphoteros (son of Alkmaion)
Amphoteros ( ancient Greek Ἀμφότερος Amphóteros ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Amphoteros was a son of Alkmaion and the naiad Kallirrhoë , daughter of the river god Acheloos . When he was a child, his father was slain by the brothers of his former wife Arsinoë (or Alphesiboia ) - Pronoos and Agenor in the library of Apollodor , Temenos and Axion near Pausanias . At the request of Kallirrhoë, Zeus Amphoteros and his brother Akarnan quickly grew into men in order to be able to avenge the death of their father. Amphoteros and his brother go out and kill atAgapenor in Tegea Arsinoës brothers, the sons of Phegeus , when they are on the way to Delphi . On this occasion they steal the collar and the peplos of Harmonia , which should have been consecrated to Apollo in Delphi , and move on to Psophis , where they kill Phegeus himself and his wife. On the orders of their grandfather, they hand over the Harmonia's collar and peplos to the god in Delphi. From there they set out for Epirus and settle in the area that Akarnan gave his name to Akarnania .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Amphoteros 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 324 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Erich Bethe : Amphoteros 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1977.