Amythaon
Amythaon ( ancient Greek Ἀμυθάων ) is a son of Tire with King Kretheus of Iolkos in Greek mythology . His siblings were Aison and Pheres , and he also had two half-brothers, the twins Pelias and Neleus , whom his mother gave birth to Poseidon .
He married Eidomene , the daughter of his brother Pheres, and with her fathered Bias and Melampus , who later received rule over Argos , and Aiolia , the wife of Kalydon and thus ancestor of King Oineus .
After the death of King Cretheus, Pelias tried to usurp the rule over all of Thessaly , lured the rightful successor Aison into a cave below Iolkos and banished his other brothers to Messenia , where they settled in Pylos with King Aphareus .
After the dispersion of the Sons of Pelops over the whole of the Peloponnese, Amythaon renewed the Olympic Games .
literature
- Konrad Wernicke : Amythaon 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, column 2013 f.
Remarks
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 11.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 7.
- ^ Pausanias 5: 8, 2.