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Amyclas of Sparta

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Amyclas
King of Sparta
Member of the Spartan Royal Family
Other namesAmyclus
PredecessorLacedaemon
SuccessorArgalus
AbodeSparta
Genealogy
ParentsLacedaemon and Sparta
SiblingsEurydice
Consort(1) Diomede
(2) unknown
Children(1) Argalus, Cynortas, Hyacinth, Laodamia (or Leanira), Harpalus, Hegesandre
and ?Polyboea
(2) Daphne

In Greek mythology, Amyclas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύκλας, romanizedAmýklas) or Amyclus was a king of Sparta and the founder of Amyclae in central Laconia.

Mythology

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Amyclas was the son of King Lacedemon and Queen Sparta, and brother of Queen Eurydice of Argos. After marrying Diomēdē, daughter of Lapithes, in 1351 BC,[1] he became the father of Argalus,[2] Cynortas,[3] Hyacinth,[4] Laodamia[5] (or Leaneira[6]), Harpalus,[7] Hegesandre[8] and possibly of Polyboea.[9] In other versions of the myth, Amyclas was also called the father of Daphne.[10]

Regnal titles
Preceded by King of Sparta Succeeded by

Notes

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  1. ^ "Chapter 28 - Bronze Age History of Laconia". ACT 青森ケーブルテレビ.
  2. ^ Pausanias, 3.1.3
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3 & 3.13.1
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
  5. ^ Pausanias, 10.9.5
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.1
  7. ^ Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)
  8. ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 4.10 & 22; Pherecydes, fr. 132 [=Fowler (2013), vol. 1, p. 345 & vol. 2, p. 438]
  9. ^ Pausanias, 3.19.4
  10. ^ Parthenius, 15 from the elegiac poems of Diodorus of Elaea and the 25th book of Phylarchus

References

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  • Works related to Amyclas at Wikisource