Amphion

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There are several characters named Amphion [1] in Greek mythology:

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Amphion building Thebes with the power of music, from a 1655 engraving

Notes

  1. ↑ /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)
  2. ↑ Homer, Odyssey 11.260–3; Brill's New Pauly s.v. Amphion; Grimal, s.v. Amphion, p. 38.
  3. ↑ Pausanias, 6.20.18
  4. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.6
  5. ↑ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes [fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338]; Apollodorus, 1.9.9
  6. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
  7. ↑ Pausanias, 7.26.12
  8. ↑ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.176
  9. ↑ Valerius Flaccus, 1.367
  10. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  11. ↑ Homer, Iliad 13.685–93
  12. ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.111
  13. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.12.7

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