Amarynthus

A hunter of Artemis, from whom the town of Amarynthus in Euboea1 was believed to have derived its name.2 From this hero, or rather from the town of Amarynthus, Artemis derived the surname Amarynthia or Amarysia, under which she was worshiped there and also in Attica.3

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium says Euboea itself.
  2. Strabo. Geography x, 448.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 31.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.