Amarynceus

Amarynceus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαρυγκεύς) was in Greek mythology, a chief of the Eleans.

Family

Amarynceus was the son of Onesimachus[1] or of Acetor[2]. Mnesimache, daughter of Dexamenus of Olenus, was the mother of Diores[3] while his other son Hippostratus was said have seduced Periboea, daughter of Hipponous.[4]

Mythology

According to Hyginus, Amarynceus himself joined the expedition against Troy with nineteen ships. Homer, on the other hand, only mentions Amarynceus' son Diores (also known by the patronymic Amarynceides) as partaking in the Trojan War.[5]

When Amarynceus died, his sons celebrated funeral games in his honor, in which Nestor took part.[6] According to Pausanias, Amarynceus had been of great service to Augeas against Heracles, in return for which Augeas shared his throne with him.[7][8]

Notes

Hyginus, Fabulae 97
Eustathius of Thessalonica, On Homer p. 303
Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 534
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.4
Homer, Iliad 2.622 & 4.517
Homer, Iliad 23.629
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.8
Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Amarynceus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 136.

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References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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[1] Hyginus, Fabulae 97

[2] Eustathius of Thessalonica, On Homer p. 303

[3] Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 534

[4] Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.4

[5] Homer, Iliad 2.622 & 4.517

[6] Homer, Iliad 23.629

[7] Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.8

[DGRBM-8] Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Amarynceus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 136.