Amphictyon

Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2

Amphictyon, the son of Deucalion, rebelled against Cranaus, his kinsman and father-in-law, and deposed him from the Athenian kingship. He was later expelled from the kingdom by Erichthonius and his fellow conspirators. In another account, he feasted Dionysus and all the other gods.

Some thought Amphictyon appointed the general Council of the Greeks. After the Phocians seized the temple at Delphi and the Sacred War ended, the council was changed; when the Phocians later showed great bravery in the war against the Galati, they were restored to it. Amphictyon was also the grandfather of Itonus, whose daughter was named in one account of Endymion’s marriage.

Relationship record

Life events

• Amphictyon rebelled against Cranaus and deposed him from the kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Cranaus
  • “Amphictyon rose up in insurrection against Cranaus, although he was married to his daughter, and deposed him from the kingdom;”
• Erichthonius and his conspirators expelled Amphictyon from the kingdom.(Book 1 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Erichthonius
  • “but was himself afterwards ejected by Erichthonius and his fellow conspirators.”
• Amphictyon expelled Cranaus from kingship at Athens.(Book 1 · Chapter 31)
  • With: Cranaus
  • “That Cranaus the king of the Athenians was expelled by Amphictyon, though he was his kinsman”
• Amphictyon appointed the general Council of the Greeks.(Book 10 · Chapter 8)
  • “Some think that Amphictyon the son of Deucalion appointed the general Council of the Greeks”
• The Phocians seized the temple, prompting a later reorganization of the Amphictyonic Council.(Book 10 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “But when the Phocians seized the temple, and ten years afterwards the Sacred War came to an end, the Amphictyonic Council was changed”
• The Phocians were restored to the Amphictyonic Council after their bravery against the Galati.(Book 10 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Delphi)
  • “the Phocians exhibited greater bravery than any of the Greeks in the war, and were in consequence restored to the Amphictyonic Council”

Book 1 · Chapter 2

• with Dionysus (They are depicted feasting together.) “Amphictyon the king of the Athenians feasting Dionysus and all the other gods”
• enemies with Cranaus “Amphictyon rose up in insurrection against Cranaus, although he was married to his daughter, and deposed him from the kingdom”
• enemies with Erichthonius “was himself afterwards ejected by Erichthonius and his fellow conspirators”

Book 1 · Chapter 31

• with Cranaus (Amphictyon expelled Cranaus; the text also explicitly calls them kinsmen.) “That Cranaus the king of the Athenians was expelled by Amphictyon, though he was his kinsman”

Book 5 · Chapter 1

• child: Itonus “But a more probable account is that Endymion married Asterodia, others say Chromia the daughter of Itonus the son of Amphictyon, others say Hyperippe the daughter of Arcas, and had three sons, Pæon and Epeus and Ætolus, and one daughter Eurycyde.”

Book 9 · Chapter 1

• child: Itonus “from Bœotus, who they say was the son of Itonus the son of Amphictyon and the Nymph Melanippe.”

Book 9 · Chapter 34

• child: Itonus “Itonian Athene, called so from Itonus the son of Amphictyon.”

Book 10 · Chapter 8

• parent: Deucalion (Deucalion is Amphictyon's father.) “Amphictyon the son of Deucalion”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.