There are several characters named Amphion[1] in Greek mythology:
- Amphion, son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus (see Amphion and Zethus).[2] Together, they are famous for building Thebes. Pausanias recounts an Egyptian legend according to which Amphion employed magic to build the walls of the city.[3] Amphion married Niobe, and killed himself after the loss of his wife and children (the Niobids) at the hands of Apollo and Artemis. Diodorus Siculus calls Chloris his daughter,[4] but the other accounts of her parentage identify her father as another Amphion, the ruler of Minyan Orchomenus (see below).
- Amphion, king of the Minyan Orchomenus and son of Iasus. By Persephone, daughter of Minyas, he became the father of Chloris, wife of Neleus[5] and Phylomache, wife of Pelias;[6] these husbands are sons of Tyro and Poseidon.
- Amphion, son of Hyperasius, son of Pelles, son of Phorbas.[7] From Achaean Pellene, he and his brother Asterius were counted among the Argonauts that sailed to Colchis.[8] In two separate accounts, Hypso was called their mother[9] while Hippasus was said to be their father.[10]
- Amphion of Elis, an Achaean warrior who took part in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks. He was a commander of the Epeans, together with Meges and Dracius.[11]
- Amphion, friend of the celebrated architect Epeius. He was killed by Aeneas.[12]
- Amphion, centaur who attended Pirithous' wedding, fought against the Lapiths, tried to plunder Pholus of his wine and was killed by Heracles.[13]
- ^ /æmˈfaɪ.ɒn/ (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, romanized: Amphīōn "native of two lands",(Graves, p. 669) derived from ἀμφί amphi "on both sides, in all directions, surrounding" as well as "around, about, near", Latin Amphīon, adjective Amphionian)
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.260–3; Brill's New Pauly s.v. Amphion; Grimal, s.v. Amphion, p. 38.
- ^ Pausanias, 6.20.18
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.6
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338; Apollodorus, 1.9.9
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
- ^ Pausanias, 7.26.12
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.176
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 1.367
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ^ Homer, Iliad 13.685–93
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.111
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.12.7