Amythaon

Family: Mythological · Role: man · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 44

Amythaon was the son of Cretheus and the paternal uncle of Endymion. A generation after Endymion, he appointed games at Olympia.

In Book 4, the river Bias was said to take its name from Bias, Amythaon’s son. Book 1 also records Melampus as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• The river Bias received its name from Bias, son of Amythaon.(Book 4 · Chapter 34)
  • With: Bias
  • “the river Bias discharges itself into the sea, which river took its name they say from Bias the son of Amythaon.”
• Amythaon appointed games at Olympia.(Book 5 · Chapter 8 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “Amythaon the son of Cretheus, uncle of Endymion on the father’s side, (for they say Aethlius was the son of Æolus surnamed Zeus), appointed games at Olympia”

Book 1 · Chapter 44

• child: Melampus “a temple of Melampus the son of Amythaon”

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• child: Melampus “Melampus the son of Amythaon cured them of that complaint”

Book 4 · Chapter 34

• child: Bias “which river took its name they say from Bias the son of Amythaon.”

Book 5 · Chapter 5

• child: Melampus “Others refer this condition of the river to Melampus the son of Amythaon”

Book 5 · Chapter 8

• parent: Cretheus “Amythaon the son of Cretheus”
• younger kin: Endymion “Amythaon the son of Cretheus, uncle of Endymion on the father’s side”

Book 6 · Chapter 17

• child: Melampus (Amythaon is Melampus's father.) “Mantius was the father of Œcles, and the son of Melampus the son of Amythaon.”

Book 8 · Chapter 47

• child: Melampus (Amythaon was Melampus's father.) “And the altar they say was made for the goddess by Melampus the son of Amythaon”

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