Amphion

There are several characters named Amphion (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων "native of two lands"[1] derived from ἀμφί amphi "on both sides, in all directions, surrounding" as well as "around, about, near") in Greek mythology:

• Amphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus (see Amphion and Zethus). Together they are famous for building Thebes. Pausanias recounts an Egyptian legend according to which Amphion employed magic to build the walls of the city.[2] Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (the Niobids) at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. Diodorus Siculus calls Chloris his daughter,[3] but the other accounts of her parentage identify her father as another Amphion, the ruler of Minyan Orchomenus (see below).
• Amphion, son of Iasus and by Persephone, daughter of Minyas, became the father of Chloris, wife of Neleus.[4] This Amphion is an obscure character, said to be a king of the Minyans of Orchomenus, in Boeotia.
• Amphion, son of Hyperasius, descendant of Pelles, son of Phorbas.[5] From Achaean Pellene, he and his brother Asterius were counted among the Argonauts that sailed to Colchis.[6] In two separate accounts, Hypso was called their mother[7] while Hippasus was said to be their father.[8]
• Amphion the Epean, of Elis, who took part in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks.[9]
• Amphion, friend of the celebrated architect Epeius. He was killed by Aeneas.[10]

For other uses, see Amphion (disambiguation).

Notes

1. Robert Graves. The Greek Myths (1960)
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 6.20.18
3. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.68.6
4. Scholia on Odyssey, 11. 281, citing Pherecydes
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 7.26.12
6. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.176
7. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.367
8. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
9. Homer, Iliad 13.685–93
10. Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 10.111

References

• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.