Amphidicus

A Theban who, in the war of the Seven against his native city, slew Parthenopaeus.1 According to Euripides,2 however, it was Periclymenus who killed Parthenopaeus.

Pausanias3 calls him Asphodicus, whence some critics wish to introduce the same name in Apollodorus.

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 6.8.
  2. Phoenician Women, 1156.
  3. Description of Greece ix, 18.4

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.