Amykos (son of Priam)
Amykos ( Greek Ἄμυκος "the mangle", Latinized Amycus ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Amykos was a son of the Trojan king Priam and a companion of Aeneas . In the last battle against the king of the Rutulians, Turnus , this Amykos and his brother Diores fell from their horses, fought them on foot, stabbed them both, cut off their heads and hung them on his chariot.
literature
- Konrad Wernicke : Amykos 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2001.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Amykos 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 327 ( digitized version ).