Amyclas
Family: Patræ · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 1
In Book 3, Chapter 1, Amyclas built the town of Amyclæ in Laconia. His youngest and most handsome son, Hyacinthus, died during his father’s lifetime; after Amyclas died, the succession passed to his eldest son Argalus, then to Cynortas.
The lineage is also given through Harpalus in Book 7, Chapter 18, and through Laodamia, identified in Book 10, Chapter 9, as the daughter of Amyclas, king at Lacedæmon.
Relationship record
Book 3 · Chapter 1
- parent: Lacedæmon “And Amyclas his son, wishing also himself to leave a memorial behind him, built the little town Amyclæ in Laconia.”
- child: Hyacinthus “And of his sons Hyacinthus, the youngest and most handsome, died in his father’s lifetime, and there is a monument of him at Amyclæ close to the statue of Apollo.”
- child: Argalus “And on the death of Amyclas the succession devolved upon Argalus his eldest son, and after the death of Argalus upon Cynortas.”
Book 3 · Chapter 13
- child: Cynortas “Cynortas the son of Amyclas”
Book 7 · Chapter 18
- child: Harpalus (Amyclas is Harpalus's father.) “the son of Deritus, the son of Harpalus, the son of Amyclas the son of Lacedæmon.”
- parent: Lacedæmon (Lacedæmon is Amyclas's father.) “the son of Deritus, the son of Harpalus, the son of Amyclas the son of Lacedæmon.”
Book 10 · Chapter 9
- child: Laodamia “Laodamia, the daughter of Amyclas king at Lacedæmon”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.