Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Agamedes.
The gallery
Cave of Trophonius
Robert Smirke, c. 1802–1804
Smirke's Yale drawing of Trophonius' oracular cave — the brother with whom Agamedes built Apollo's temple and Hyrieus' trick-treasury before Agamedes' death in the trap.
The Hercyna and the Cave of Trophonius
Henri Belle, 1881
Belle's Lebadeia landscape — the chasm that remembers the builder-brothers Agamedes and Trophonius after the treasury crime.
The Charioteer of Delphi
Unknown (bronze, Delphi), c. 478–474 BC
Delphi's bronze charioteer — the sanctuary whose early temple Pausanias credits to Agamedes and Trophonius, the Orchomenian master-builders.
In play
Agamedes
Son of Erginus of Orchomenus, brother of Trophonius — co-builder of Apollo's Delphic temple and of Hyrieus' booby-trapped treasury. Not Agamedes son of Stymphalus.
Trophonius
Agamedes' brother and partner in the treasury theft — afterward the underground oracle of Lebadeia.
Description of Greece
Pausanias
Pausanias records the brothers' Delphic building and the Hyrieus treasury trap that kills Agamedes — then Trophonius' subterranean cult.