Amyntor (son of Ormenus)

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This article is about the mythological son of Ormenus and father of Phoenix. For other mythological figures, see Amyntor (mythology).

In

Clytia or Phthia. Amyntor, discovering this, called upon the Erinyes to curse him with childlessness. In a later version of the story, Phoenix was falsely accused by Amyntor's mistress and was blinded by his father, but Chiron
restored his sight.

Amyntor was also the father of a son

Eurypylus
.

When Amyntor refused Heracles permission to pass through his kingdom, Heracles killed Amyntor and fathered a son Ctesippus, by Astydamia. During the Trojan War, Odysseus received a helmet that had originally belonged to Amyntor.

Mythology

According to the Iliad, Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, was a king in Hellas,[2] and the father of Phoenix, who became a tutor of Achilles, whom he accompanied to the Trojan War. In a speech, addressed to Achilles, Phoenix tells of the conflict between himself and his father. When Amyntor forsook his wife, Phoenix's mother, for a concubine, at the urging of his jealous mother, Phoenix had sex with Amyntor's concubine. To punish this crime Amyntor called upon the Erinyes to curse Phoenix with childlessness. Outraged Phoenix intended to kill Amyntor, but was finally dissuaded. Instead he fleeing through Hellas, Phoenix went to Peleus in Phthia, where he became king of the Dolopians.[3] Also according to the Iliad, the thief Autolycus broke into Amyntor's house in Eleon and stole a helmet, which Meriones gave to Odysseus during the Trojan War.[4]

The mythographer Apollodorus gives a different version of Phoenix's story, probably drawn from a lost play by the tragedian Euripides.[5] In this account Phoenix was falsely accused of having sex with Amyntor's concubine Phthia, and was blinded by Amyntor. Peleus brought Phoenix to the centaur Chiron who restored his sight, after which Peleus made him king of the Dolopians.[6] According to Apollodorus, Amyntor was a king of Ormenium, and one day when Heracles wished to pass through his land, Amyntor took up arms and opposed him, and was killed by Heracles, who then fathered a son Ctesippus, by Amyntor's daughter Astydamia.[7]

Brief references to Amyntor are found in the poems of the third-century BC poets Callimachus and Lycophron. Callimachus, mentions the sons of Ormenus inviting Erysichthon to games associated with the cult of Athena at Itone in Thessaly,[8] while Lycophron refers to Amyntor blinding Phoenix.[9] According to

Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous.[10]

Eurypylus who succeeded to the throne, because Phoenix had fled to Peleus in Phthia.[11]

Scholia name Phoenix's mother either

Clytia or Phthia.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ Tripp, s.v. Amyntor, p. 48; Smith, s.v. Amyntor, s.v. Phoenix 2.
  2. ^ For the "hopeless confusion" in Homer's statements concerning the location of Amyntor's kingdom see Leaf's note to Iliad 9.447, p. 403.
  3. ^ Homer, Iliad 9.432–495.
  4. ^ Homer, Iliad 10.260– 271.
  5. ^ Gantz, p. 618; Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, 3.13.8.
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.8.
  7. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.7–8; c.f. Pindar, Olympian 7.23–24, which refers to "descendants of Amyntor, through Astydameia". According to Diodorus Siculus, 4.37.4, Astydameia was the daughter of king Ormenius, and when Heracles asked Ormenius for permission to marry Astydameia, Ormenius refused, so Heracles killed Ormenius, took Astydameia, and fathered Ctesippus by her.
  8. ^ Callimachus, Hymn 6 to Demeter 75–76 with notes a, b.
  9. ^ Lycophron, Alexandra 417–423.
  10. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.361–368.
  11. ^ Strabo, 9.5.18.
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  13. ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, Alexandra. 421; Eustathius ad Homer p. 762
  14. ^ Gantz, p. 618; Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus, 3.13.8;

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