Amyros

Amyros ( Greek  Ἄμυρος ), son of Poseidon , is a figure in Greek mythology .

He was a Thessalian river god, after whom - in addition to the water - a city was named, as well as a participant in the voyage of the Argonauts . Sometimes he is also referred to as the father of Malos .

swell

• Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika , s. Amyros
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus , Argonautica 2, 11
• Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1, 596

literature

• Karl Tümpel : Amyros 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2011.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Amyros . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 329 ( digitized version ).