Amycus punished, red-figured Lucanian hydria, end of 4th century BCE, Cabinet des Médailles.
In Greek mythology, Amycus (Ancient Greek: Ἄμυκος) was the son of Poseidon and Melia. He was a boxer and King of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Polydeuces beat him in a boxing match when the Argonauts passed through Bithynia.[1][2][3][4] He was also a prominent Trojan during the Trojan War. He married Theona and had one son named Mimas.[5] He followed Aeneas to Italy, where he was killed by Turnus.[6]
In popular culture[]
- Amycus Carrow, a Death Eater in the Harry Potter series, is named after Amycus.
References[]
- ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 2. 1.ff & 2. 94 ff with scholia
- ↑ Bibliotheca 1. 9. 20
- ↑ Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae, 17
- ↑ Argonautica Orphica, 657 ff
- ↑ Virgil, Aeneid, 10. 702
- ↑ Virgil, Aeneid, 12. 509
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