Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Amphictyon.
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Amphictyon
Son of Deucalion (or of the soil), early king of Attica who succeeds Cranaus — host of Dionysus and namesake of the Amphictyonic leagues in later aetiology.
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Dionysus
Pausanias and Apollodorus remember Amphictyon as the Attic king who first entertained Dionysus and mixed wine with water — hospitality rewritten as a civic first.
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Deucalion
In one strand Amphictyon's father — the flood-survivor whose son's Attic reign bridges the Deucalionic age and Cecrops' line.
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Amphictyonic League
Later Greeks derived the Delphic and other amphictyonies from this king's name — mythic eponym for sacred interstate councils.