Amphion

A son of Iasus (2) and husband of Persephone, by whom he became the father of Chloris.1

In Homer, this Amphion, king of Orchomenos, is distinct from Amphion, the husband of Niobe; but in earlier traditions they seem to have been regarded as the same person.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Odyssey xii, 281 ff.
  2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 1684; Müller. Orchomenos und die Minyer, pp. 231, 370.

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.