Amphimedon

A son of Melaneus of Ithaca, with whom Agamemnon had been staying when he came to call upon Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and whom he afterwards recognized in Hades.1 He was one of the suitors of Penelope, and was slain by Telemachus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Odyssey xxiv, 103 ff.
  2. ibid. xxii, 284.

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.