Amythaonius

A patronymic from Amythaon, by which his son, the seer Melampus, is sometimes designated.1 The descendants of Amythaon in general are called by the Greeks Amythaonidae.2

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Georgics iii, 550; Columella, x, 348.
  2. Strabo. Geography viii, 372.

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.