In Greek mythology, Amphilochus, or Amphílokhos, is the name of three men. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

1. Amphilochus was the younger son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle and the brother of Alcmaeon. In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus, or Amphiaraos (doubly-cursed) was the son of Oicles and husband of Eriphyle. ... In Greek mythology, Eriphyle, daughter of Talaus, was the mother of Alcmaeon and the wife of Amphiaraus. ... In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon, or Alkmáon, was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. ...

Eriphyle persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the Seven Against Thebes raid, though he knew he would die. She had been persuaded by Polynices, who offered her the necklace of Harmonia, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares. Amphiaraus reluctantly agreed to join the battle and asked his sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus, to avenge his death. In the battle, Amphiaraus sought to flee from Poriclymenus, the son of Poseidon, who wanted to kill him, but Zeus threw his thunder and the earth opened to swallow Amphiaraus together with his chariot. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Επτά επί Θήβας The Seven Against Thebes is a mythic narrative that finds its classic statement in the play by Aeschylus (467 BCE) concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices and the army of Thebes headed by Eteocles and his supporters, traditional Theban... In Greek mythology, Polynices was the son of Oedipus and Jocasta. ... In Greek mythology, Harmonia is the goddess of harmony and concord. ... For other uses, see Aphrodite (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Ares (Ancient Greek: , modern Greek Άρης [pron. ... In Greek mythology, Poriclymenus (or Periclymenus) referred to two different people. ... Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Zeús, genitive: Diós), is...

Alcmaeon killed his mother and exiled himself. Amphilochus became a prominent seer, and founded several oracles most importantly Mallow in Cilicia, and (with Mopsus), the oracle of Apollo at Colophon. Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy An oracle is a person or persons considered to be the source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... Cilicia as Roman province, 120 AD In Antiquity, Cilicia (Κιλικία) was the name of a region, now known as Çukurova, and often a political unit, on the southeastern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), north of Cyprus. ... In Greek mythology, Mopsus was the name of two famous seers: Mopsus, son of Manto and Rhacius or Apollo Mopsus, a celebrated prophet, son of Manto and Rhacius or Apollo. ... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a... Colophon (Greek Κολοφών; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was a titular see of Asia Minor. ...

2. In a myth assigned to Euripides by Apollodorus, Amphilochus is the son of Alcmaeon and Manto. Along with his sister Tisiphone, his father entrusts him to king Creon of Corinth to be raised. After his father returns from him and recognizes him in a lost play, he goes on to found Amphilochian Argos.^[1][2] A statue of Euripides Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. ... Apollodorus was a common name in ancient Greece. ... In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon, or Alkmáon, was the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. ... Manto may mean: Saadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu short_story writer Manto, the daughter of Tiresias and Mopsus in Greek mythology Mantophasmatodea, an order of carnivorous insect discovered in 2002 This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Tisiphone can mean:- Two figures in Greek mythology:- One of the Erinyes (or Furies). ... There are two kings in Greek mythology named Creon, or Kreeon (ruler), and one historical person. ... Corinth, or Korinth (Greek: Κόρινθος, Kórinthos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...

Amphilocus is named among the suitors of Helen in some accounts. ^[3] After the Trojan War, he may have been killed either by Apollo, or by his half-brother Mopsus, whom he also killed in single combat. However, these myths may concern his nephew, also named Amphilocus.^[4] Helen, detail from an Attic red-figure krater, ca. ... The fall of Troy, by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769). ... Lycian Apollo, early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth century Greek original (Louvre Museum) In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek , Apóllōn; or , Apellōn), the ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), was the archer-god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a... In Greek mythology, Mopsus was the name of two famous seers: Mopsus, son of Manto and Rhacius or Apollo Mopsus, a celebrated prophet, son of Manto and Rhacius or Apollo. ...

3. Amphilochus son of Dryas and husband of Alcinoe. In Greek mythology, Dryas was the son of King Lycurgus of Thrace. ... Alcinoe is the name of two women in Greek mythology 1. ...

Notes

1. ^ Apollodorus. Library. 3.7.26
2. ^ Thucydides. History of the Pelopponesian War. 2.68
3. ^ Gantz, Timothy. Early Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, p.566
4. ^ Apollodorus. Library. 3.10.8

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