Amphitryoniades

A patronymic from Amphitryon, by which Heracles is sometimes designated, because his mother was married to Amphitryon.

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References

Sources

  • Ovid. Metamorphoses ix, 140; xv, 49.
  • Pindar. Olympian Odes iii, 26; Isthmian Odes vi, 56.
  • 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.