Amphiphanes

First appears: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

At Oenoe in Locris, Hesiod stayed with Amphiphanes and his brother Ganyetor, sons of Phegeus, unknowingly entering the place named in the oracle. Suspecting him of seducing their sister, Amphiphanes and Ganyetor killed Hesiod and cast his body into the sea between Achaea and Locris.

Fearing their countrymen’s anger, the brothers fled by boat toward Crete. According to Alcidamas, after they had completed half the voyage, Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt. Demodes was also killed by the brothers, Eratosthenes reports.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hesiod stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor, sons of Phegeus, unknowingly entering the place named in the oracle.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Oenoe)
  • With: Hesiod Ganyetor Phegeus
  • “and coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle”
• Amphiphanes and Ganyetor killed Hesiod, suspecting him of seducing their sister, and cast his body into the sea.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Oenoe)
  • With: Hesiod Ganyetor the sister of Amphiphanes and Ganyetor
  • “until the young men, suspecting Hesiod of seducing their sister, killed him and cast his body into the sea which separates Achaea and Locris.”
• Fearing their countrymen’s anger, the killers fled by boat toward Crete.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Ganyetor
  • “But these, fearing the anger of their countrymen, launched a fishing boat, and put out to sea for Crete”
• Zeus sank the fleeing brothers with a thunderbolt, according to Alcidamas.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Ganyetor Zeus
  • “they had finished half their voyage when Zeus sank them with a thunderbolt, as Alcidamas states in his ‘Museum’.”
• Eratosthenes reports that the brothers also killed Demodes.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2)
  • With: Demodes Ganyetor
  • “and who was also killed by the brothers.”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

• parent: Phegeus “coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle;”
• siblings with Ganyetor “coming to Oenoe in Locris, he stayed with Amphiphanes and Ganyetor the sons of Phegeus, thus unconsciously fulfilling the oracle;”
• siblings with the sister of Amphiphanes and Ganyetor “until the young men, suspecting Hesiod of seducing their sister, killed him and cast his body into the sea which separates Achaea and Locris.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.