Amphidamas

Amphidamas may refer to both historical and mythological figures in ancient Greece :

Mythology

Amphidamas is the name of six men in Greek mythology.

1. Amphidamas, son of Aleus and Cleobule. He was one of the Argonauts, along with his brother Cepheus.^[1]

2. Amphidamas, father of Nausidame. Nausidame bore Helios a son, Augeas.^[1]

3. Amphidamas, son of Lycurgus by either Cleophyle or Eurynome. Amphidamas had two children: Melanion and Antimache, who married Eurystheus.^[2]

4. Amphidamas, son of Busiris, king of Egypt. He was killed, alongside his father, by Heracles.^[3]

5. Amphidamas, father of Clitonymus, who was killed by Patroclus over a game of dice^[4]

6. Amphidamas, one of the men hidden in the Trojan horse.

History

• Amphidamas is the name of an historical king of Chalcis, death, about 730 BC, after Lelantine War, whose burial ceremony being associated with the poetic agon mentioned by Hesiod.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
2. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.9.2
3. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 2.5.11
4. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.13.8
5. ^ Hesiod. Works and Days, 654.