Amykos

In Greek mythology, Amykos (Ancient Greek: Ἄμυκος), Latinized as Amycus, was the king of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia.

Amycus punished, red-figured Lucanian hydria, end of 4th century BC, Cabinet des Médailles

Family

Amycus was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia.[1]

Mythology

Amycus was a doughty man but being a king he compelled strangers to box as a way of killing them.[2] When the Argonauts passed through Bithynia, Amycus challenged the best man of the crew to a boxing match. Polydeuces undertook to box against him and killed him with a blow on the elbow.[3][4][5]

When the Bebryces rush to avenge him, the chiefs snatched up their arms and put them to flight with great slaughter.

Bay/Port

During ancient time the bay at modern Beykoz was called Amykos.[6][7]

Notes
  1. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1 ff & 2.94 ff with scholia
  2. Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. Loeb Classical Library
  3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.20
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae 17
  5. Orphic Argonautica, 657 ff
  6. Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos, §97
  7. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, §5.43.2
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