Amphalces is presented in the sources as a member of an Argive royal family. The genealogical attestations describe him as a son of King Antiphates and Zeuxippe, daughter of Hippocoon, and as brother of Oicles (Oecles). Some modern summaries (citing Diodorus via compendia such as Wikipedia) record a variant tradition identifying Amphalces as father of the seer Amphiaraus; this filial attribution conflicts with other traditions that make Oicles the father of Amphiaraus and is therefore noted as a variant rather than a unanimous genealogy. The cited material treats Amphalces solely within these family lists and does not provide an independent narrative origin or founding myth.
The cited sources do not supply any physical description or iconography for Amphalces. He is attested only as a name in genealogical lists, lexica, and mythographic indices (e.g., ToposText, Hermes/Mycenae name lists, and compendial entries), and no ancient source in the provided material records anthropomorphic detail, attributes, or visual depictions for him.
No supernatural powers, distinctive behaviors, or mythic deeds are ascribed to Amphalces in the supplied sources. He is named within genealogical registers as a human member of the Argive royal house. The only contested functional attribution in the material is a variant genealogical claim (attested in modern summaries of ancient compendia) that he might be father of the seer Amphiaraus; other traditions attribute Amphiaraus' paternity to Oicles. Beyond these nominative records, the sources do not report actions, cultic roles, or abilities.
Antiphates
Antiphates is an ancient Greek personal name borne by multiple distinct characters in the epic tradition (at least five figures): a king of the Laestrygones (giant cannibals) encountered by Odysseus, a warrior concealed in the wooden horse at Troy, a Trojan warrior slain by Leonteus in Italian/late-epic tradition, and at least two genealogical bearers (son of Melampus; son of Sarpedon). The name functions as a personal name across heroic genealogies and episodic narratives rather than as a single supernatural species.
Hippocoon
Hippocoon is a personal name in Greek myth borne by several distinct mortal figures — most prominently a Spartan king who usurped the throne from Tyndareus and was killed by Heracles, but also minor genealogical figures, a Thracian kinsman in Iliadic tradition, and an archer in Virgil's Aeneid. The name (Ancient Greek Ἱπποκόων) recurs across heroic, royal, and epic-competition narratives rather than designating a single supernatural entity.
Amphiaraus
Amphiaraus is a legendary Greek seer and chthonic hero, famed as one of the Seven against Thebes. After his death—when the earth opened and swallowed him—he was venerated at the Amphiareion of Oropos as a healing and oracular figure whose sanctuary received petitioners seeking dream-delivered solutions.
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
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- [1]Amphalces - Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors. "Amphalces." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. (entry summarizing ancient genealogical attestations; cites Diodorus and other compendia)wiki
- [2]ToposText: Amphalces (person index). ToposText person index entry for Amphalces (genealogical listing).other
- [3]Hermes - Greek Mythology Link (name lists). Hermes name-list / lexicon entries including Amphalces among onomastic lists.other
- [4]Mycenae - Greek Mythology Link (name lists). Mycenae name-list / lexicon showing occurrence of the name Amphalces/variants.other
- [5]Argos genealogical notes (Plato-dialogues locational/genealogical tool). Argos genealogical compilation noting Antiphates' marriage to Zeuxippe and their sons Oecles and Amphalces (genealogical fragment/compendium).other
- [6]Polyeideia / Callimachus Iambi reviews (Bryn Mawr Classical Review references). Scholarly review noting occurrences of Amph- names in poetic fragments and name-register contexts; indicates presence of the name in literary-onomastic material.academic