Agamedes
Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Stymphelus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 4
In Book 8, Chapter 4, Agamedes is named as a son of Stymphelus and brother of Gortys (son of Stymphelus). By Chapter 10, he and Trophonius are said to have built the temple to Poseidon Hippius. In Book 9, Chapter 11, they make the bridal-bed for Amphitryon as he prepares to marry Alcmena.
In Book 9, Chapter 37, Erginus becomes father of Agamedes and Trophonius. During a robbery, Agamedes is trapped, and Trophonius cuts off his brother’s head “that when daylight came he might not if detected inform against him too as privy to the robbery.” At Delphi, the stone temple built by the two brothers is later reported burnt down in Book 10, Chapter 5.
Relationship record
Life events
- Agamedes and Trophonius originally built the temple to Poseidon.(Book 8 · Chapter 10 · 📍 temple of Poseidon Hippius)
- With: Trophonius Poseidon
- “which was they say originally built to Poseidon by Agamedes and Trophonius”
- Amphitryon prepared to marry Alcmena, with a bridal-bed made by Trophonius and Agamedes.(Book 9 · Chapter 11)
- With: Amphitryon Alcmena Trophonius
- “When Amphitryon was going to marry Alcmena, he contrived this bridal-bed for himself, and Anchasian Trophonius and Agamedes made it.”
- Erginus married a young wife and became father of Trophonius and Agamedes.(Book 9 · Chapter 37)
- With: Erginus Trophonius
- “So he married a young wife according to the oracle, and became father of Trophonius and Agamedes.”
- Trophonius beheaded Agamedes after Agamedes was trapped during the robbery.(Book 9 · Chapter 37)
- With: Trophonius
- “And as Agamedes entered he was trapped, and Trophonius cut off his brother’s head, that when daylight came he might not if detected inform against him too as privy to the robbery.”
- The fourth temple, built by Trophonius and Agamedes, was burnt down.(Book 10 · Chapter 5 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Trophonius
- “And the fourth (built of stone by Trophonius and Agamedes) was burnt down”
Book 8 · Chapter 4
- parent: Stymphelus “for Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphelus, were great-grandsons of Arcas”
- siblings with Gortys (son of Stymphelus) “for Agamedes and Gortys, the sons of Stymphelus”
Book 8 · Chapter 5
- child: Cercyon “the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus.”
- parent: Stymphelus “the kingdom devolved upon Hippothous, the son of Cercyon, the son of Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 10
- with Trophonius (They jointly built the original temple.) “which was they say originally built to Poseidon by Agamedes and Trophonius, who made beams of oak and adjusted them together”
- with Poseidon (Agamedes built a temple dedicated to Poseidon.) “the new temple round the old one, which was they say originally built to Poseidon by Agamedes and Trophonius, who made beams of oak and adjusted them together.”
Book 8 · Chapter 45
- child: Cercyon “Cercyon, the son of Agamedes”
- parent: Stymphelus “Agamedes, the son of Stymphelus”
Book 9 · Chapter 11
- with Amphitryon (Agamedes made Amphitryon's bridal-bed.) “When Amphitryon was going to marry Alcmena, he contrived this bridal-bed for himself, and Anchasian Trophonius and Agamedes made it.”
- with Trophonius (They jointly made the bridal-bed.) “When Amphitryon was going to marry Alcmena, he contrived this bridal-bed for himself, and Anchasian Trophonius and Agamedes made it.”
Book 9 · Chapter 37
- parent: Erginus “So he married a young wife according to the oracle, and became father of Trophonius and Agamedes.”
- siblings with Trophonius “So he married a young wife according to the oracle, and became father of Trophonius and Agamedes.”
- with Trophonius (Trophonius killed Agamedes.) “And as Agamedes entered he was trapped, and Trophonius cut off his brother’s head”
- with Hyrieus (interaction) “for they built the temple of Apollo at Delphi, and the treasury for Hyrieus.”
Book 10 · Chapter 5
- with Trophonius (Trophonius and Agamedes jointly built the fourth temple.) “And the fourth (built of stone by Trophonius and Agamedes) was burnt down when Erxiclides was Archon at Athens, in the first year of the 58th Olympiad, when Diognetus of Croton was victor.”
- with Apollo (Agamedes was said to have built Apollo's temple.) “And the fourth (built of stone by Trophonius and Agamedes) was burnt down”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.