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Hyginus also reports that "some authors" said that Amphiaraus was the son of Apollo. [8] Amphiaraus married Eriphyle, the sister of his cousin Adrastus (the grandson of Melampus' brother Bias), and by her was the father of two sons, Alcmaeon and Amphilochus. [9] From the geographer Pausanias, we hear of three daughters, Eurydice, Demonissa and ...
Eriphyle (/ ɛr ɪ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἐριφύλη, romanized: Eriphúlē) was a figure in Greek mythology who, in exchange for the necklace of Harmonia (also called the necklace of Eriphyle) given to her by Polynices, persuaded her husband Amphiaraus to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes. She was then slain by her ...
From Sthenelus the son of Capaneus, and comrade of Diomedes, we hear that at Thebes "of the seven gates", their fathers "perished through their own blind folly". [52] And finally in Book 14, we learn from Diomedes that Tydeus was buried at Thebes. [53] In Homer's Odyssey, we hear of a fifth champion, Amphiaraus betrayed by his wife Eriphyle. [54]
Another was the oracle of Apollo at Colophon in Lydia, which Amphilochus was said to have founded with his half-brother Mopsus, the son of Amphiaraus and Manto. Herodotus also credited Amphilochus with the establishment of Posideium on Syria's Cilician border.
And how Ardastus and Amphiaraus were reconciled by Adrastus giving his sister Eriphyle to Ampiaraus: But the stronger man puts an end to a former dispute. After giving man-subduing Eriphyle as a faithful pledge to Oecles’ son [Amphiaraus] for a wife, they became the greatest of the fair-haired Danaans . . . [59]
Alcmaeon killing his mother Eriphyle. In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon (/ ˌ æ l k ˈ m iː ə n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων Alkmaíōn), as one of the Epigoni, was the leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing.
In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo; Oropus also had a sacred spring. in Labadea, 20 miles (32 km) east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle.
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