Amyntor

Amyntor

Amyntor was an ancient Greek name attributed to several people both mythological and historical.

Mythological

* Amyntor, in Greek mythology, was the son of Ormenus and king of Ormenium. He was the father of Phoenix and Astydamia, who bore Heracles a son named Ctesippus. [ [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Ap2b.html Theoi Project - Notes to Apollodorus 2b] .] Amyntor's son Phoenix, on his mothers' urgings, slept with his father's mistress, Clytia or Phthia. Amyntor, discovering this, called upon the Erinyes to curse him so that he would have no sons. [Homer. "Iliad" ( [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/iliad10.txt Project Gutenberg] ).] In a later version of the story, Phoenix was falsely accused by Amyntor's mistress and was blinded by his father. Later Chiron restored his sight. [ [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Ap3d.html Theoi Project - Notes to Apollodorus 3d] ]

* Amyntor was one of the sons of Aegyptus. He was killed by his wife, Damone, one of the Danaids. [Hyginus. "Fabulae", [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html 170] .]

Historical

* Amyntor was the name of a 4th century BC Macedonian aristocrat, possibly of Athenian descent. Father of Hephaestion Amyntoros, he was the companion and lieutenant to Alexander the Great. The full history of Hephaestion's lineage is unknown. However, Jeanne Reames [ [http://myweb.unomaha.edu/~mreames/Hephaistion/history.html Reames, Jeanne. "Who was this guy anyway?" Hephaistion - Philalexandros] ] has suggested that he descended from Athenian expatriates to Macedon. The most popular piece of evidence pointing to such a connection is in name-tracing. "Hephaestion" is the name of the Temple of Hephaestus overlooking the Ancient Agora of Athens, near the Acropolis, a name which hardly appears at all in Macedon at this time period.

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  • Amyntor — (griechisch Ἀμύντωρ) ist eine Gestalt der griechischen Mythologie. Er war Herrscher in Dolopia[1]. Mit seiner Gattin Kleobule hatte er einen Sohn, Phoinix. Seiner Mutter zuliebe schlief dieser mit der Geliebten Amyntors, um sie von ihm… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Amyntor [1] — AMYNTOR, ŏris, (⇒ Tab. XXV.) des Ormenus Sohn, und Cerkaphus Enkel, Strabo lib. IX. p. 799. König der Doloper, wurde von dem Peleus durch Krieg gezwungen, ihm seinen Sohn, Krantor, zum Geisel zu geben. Ovid. Metam. XII. v. 364. Seinem andern… …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • AMYNTOR — Phoenicis pater. Homer. Il. I. v. 448. x. v. 266. Οἶον ὅτε πρῶτον λίπον Ἑλλάδα καλλιγύναικα, Φἐυγων νείκεα πατρὸς Α᾿μύντορος Ο᾿ρμενίδαο. Ovid. Ep. 3. Heroid. v. 27. Venerunt ad te telamone et Amyntore nati. Idem Met. l. 8. v. 307. Hippothousque… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Amyntor — (griech. Männername, d.i. der Helfer, Rächer), Sohn des Ormenos, wohnte zu Eleone, nach Andern König der Doloper; gegen ihn machte Autolykos einen Zug u. erbeutete den Helm, den Meriones vor Troja trug; A. wurde von Herakles erschlagen, weil er… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Amyntor — Amyntor, Gerhard von, s. Gerhardt …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Amyntor — Amyntor, Gerhard von, s. Gerhardt, Dagobert von …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Amyntor — AMYNTOR, ŏris, Gr. Ἀμύντωρ, ορος, König zu Orchomenum, wollte nicht zugeben, daß Herkules gewaffnet bey ihm durchzöge, wurde aber darüber selbst von ihm niedergemacht. Apollod. lib. II. c. 7. §. 7 …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • Amyntor — /am in tawr /, n. Class. Myth. a king of Ormenium who refused to give his daughter Astydamia to Hercules and who was slain by Hercules. * * * …   Universalium

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