Ampyx Explained

In Greek mythology, Ampyx (grc|Ἄμπυξ) or Ampycus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἄμπυκος,) was the name of the following figures:

• Ampyx, also called Ampycus or Ampyce^[1] was a Titaresian seer, the son of Elatus^[2] or Titairon, eponymous founder of the town of Titaron.^[3] He fathered Mopsus with the nymph Chloris (daughter of Orchomenus^[4]) or Aregonis.^[5] His son Mopsus joined the Argonauts after he was slain.^[6]
• Ampyx, father of the seer Idmon in some texts.^[7] Otherwise, Idmon was called the son of Abas or the god Apollo by Antianeira. Not to be confused with the above-mentioned Ampyx who was the father of another seer, Mopsus.
• Ampyx or Ampycus, an Ethiopian priest of Demeter (Ceres). He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses^[8] and was slain by Phineus during a fight between Phineus and Perseus (see Boast of Cassiopeia), just before Phineus was turned to stone.
• In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ampyx was one of the Lapiths who fought the centaurs at Pirithous's wedding. He killed a centaur named Echetlos.^[9]
• Ampyx, son of Pelias, descendant of King Amyclas of Laconia. Through his son Areus, Ampyx became the ancestor of Patreus who founded Patrae.^[10]

References

• Hesiod, Shield of Heracles from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hiller von Gaertringen, Friedrich, "Ampykos, Ampyx (7)", in Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I, Halbband 2, edited by Georg Wissowa, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1894. Wikisource.
• Book: Madeła . Alexandra Maria . The Argonautika by Orpheus: Writing Pre-Homeric Poetry in Late Antiquity . 2024 . Brill . 978-90-04-71568-4 . en.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9-15, translated by Frank Justus Miller, revised by G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library No. 43, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1984, first published 1916. . Harvard University Press.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Greek text available on Archive.org

Notes and References

1. [Hesiod]
2. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]
3. [John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]
4. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 881, 980
5. Orphic Argonautica 127, 948; Pausanias, 5.17.10.
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
7. Orphic Argonautica 721.
8. [Ovid]
9. Hiller von Gaertringen, para. 1; Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.450 - 451 (Miller, pp. 212 - 213). Hiller von Gaertringen gives the centaur's name as "Echetlos", whereas Miller's translation renders it as "Echeclus".
10. Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica)