Amphidamas

Amphidamas (/æmˈfɪdəməs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιδάμας) was the name of six men in Greek mythology:

• Amphidamas or Iphidamas,[1] son of Aleus and Cleobule. He was one of the Argonauts, along with his brother Cepheus.[2]
• Amphidamas, son of Lycurgus by either Cleophyle or Eurynome. Amphidamas had two children: Hippomenes, the husband of Atalanta, and Antimache who married Eurystheus.[3]
• Amphidamas, father of Nausidame who bore Helios a son, Augeas, king of Elis.[2]
• Amphidamas or Iphidamas,[4] son of Busiris, king of Egypt and possible brother of Melite.[2] He was killed, alongside his father, by Heracles of whom they tried to sacrifice.[5] Some accounts, added the herald Chalbes and the attendants to the list of those slain by the hero.[4]
• Amphidamas or Amphidamus,[6] a native of Opus and father of Clitonymus, who was killed by Patroclus over a game of dice.[7] In some accounts, the name of the slain lad was variously given as Clisonymus[8] or Aeanes.[9]
• Amphidamas, one of the men hidden in the Trojan horse.[10]
• Amphidamas, a man from Cythera who was given by Autolycus a helmet to take to Scandea. This cap was previously stolen by the famous thief from the stout-built house of Amyntor, son of Ormenus. Amphidamas gave the item as a guest-gift to Molus who in turn, gave it to his son Meriones to wear. Later on, Odysseus received the helmet from Meriones himself.[11]
• Amphidamas, father of Pelagon, king of Phocis, who gave Cadmus the cow that was to guide him to Boeotia.[12]

For other uses, see Amphidamas (king of Chalcis).

Notes

1. The Orphic Argonautica 138, translated by Jason Colavito, derived from his text at argonauts-book.com, copyright 2011, used by permission of the translator. The Greek text is available at PoesiaLatina.it. A pedantic work of the 4th c. CE, full of geographic references.
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 157
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.2
4. Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica, 4.1396
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.11
6. Homer. Iliad, 23.87
7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.13.8
8. Scholiast on Homer. Iliad, 12.1
9. Strabo, Geographica 9.4.2
10. Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilios 182 ff
11. Homer, Iliad 10.254 ff
12. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 638

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.
• 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.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tryphiodorus, Capture of Troy translated by Mair, A. W. Loeb Classical Library Volume 219. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1928. Online version at theoi.com
• Tryphiodorus, Capture of Troy with an English Translation by A.W. Mair. London, William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.