Epicaste (wife of Agamedes)

Epicaste ( Greek  Ἐπικάστη ) is a person of Greek mythology . She is the wife of the famous architect Agamedes in Arcadia . With this she has the children Trophonis and Kerkyon in Stymphalos .

As Agamedes with his sons the Treasury of Augean stole, he was caught in a snare, and lost his life. In order not to be discovered, Trophonis cut off his father's head and fled with brother Kerkyon.

source

• Charax at Scholion to Aristophanes : Nubes 508.

literature

• August Schultz : Epicaste 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1283 ( digitized version ).