Amyclas

A son of Lacedaemon and Sparta, and father of Hyacinthus by Diomede, the daughter of Lapithus.1 He was king of Laconia, and was regarded as the founder of the town of Amyclae.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 10.3; Pausanias. Description of Greece x, 9.3; vii, 18.4.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 1.3.

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.