Amycus

Family: Bebrycians · Role: king · First appears: Book II 1

Life events

Polydeuces defeats Amycus in boxing, breaking his skull and killing him.(Book II 1)
- With: Polydeuces
- “and coming near and slipping his knee past the king’s, with a rush he struck him above the ear, and broke the bones inside, and the king in agony fell upon his knees; and the Minyan heroes shouted for joy; and his life was poured forth all at once.”

parent: Melie “Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men;”
parent: Poseidon “Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men;”
servant: Lyeoreus “And between them Lyeoreus, the henchman of Amycus, placed at their feet on each side two pairs of gauntlets made of raw hide, dry, exceeding tough.”
servant: Oreides “But Oreides, insolent henchman of Amycus, wounded Talaus son of Bias in the side,”
enemies with Polydeuces “Thus he spake in his pride, but fierce anger seized them when they heard it, and the challenge smote Polydeuces most of all. And quickly he stood forth his comrades’ champion, and cried:”

enemies with Polydeuces (Polydeuces is among the heroes credited with slaying Amycus.) “Not long had they come unmarked by Lycus, the lord of that land, and the Mariandyni—they, the slayers of Amycus, according to the report which the people heard before; but for that very deed they even made a league with the heroes. And Polydeuces himself they welcomed as a god”

enemies with Lycus “But now the Bebrycians and the insolence of Amycus have robbed me”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.